What is GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx?

GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. Ruby_parser-legacy Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx cover?

GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2019-18409. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx?

GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx?

GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx affects 1 product, including: rubygems/ruby_parser-legacy:\u003c= 1.0.0.

GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jxHighCVSS 7.8

Ruby_parser-legacy Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 25, 2019

Last Modified

August 25, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2019-18409 →

📋 Description

The ruby_parser-legacy (aka legacy) gem 1.0.0 for Ruby allows local privilege escalation because of world-writable files. For example, if the brakeman gem (which has a legacy dependency) 4.5.0 through 4.7.0 is used, a local user can insert malicious code into the ruby_parser-legacy-1.0.0/lib/ruby_parser/legacy/ruby_parser.rb file.

🎯 Affected products1

rubygems/ruby_parser-legacy:<= 1.0.0

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18409
https://github.com/zenspider/ruby_parser-legacy/issues/1
https://brakemanscanner.org/blog/2019/10/14/brakeman-4-dot-7-dot-1-released
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/brakeman/CVE-2019-18409.yml
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hhwc-8g49-j8jx