GHSA-mqm2-cgpr-p4m6CriticalCVSS 9.8

Unintended read access in kramdown gem

Published
August 7, 2020
Last Modified
August 28, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

📋 Description

The kramdown gem before 2.3.0 for Ruby processes the template option inside Kramdown documents by default, which allows unintended read access (such as template="/etc/passwd") or unintended embedded Ruby code execution (such as a string that begins with template="string://<%= `). NOTE: kramdown is used in Jekyll, GitLab Pages, GitHub Pages, and Thredded Forum.

🎯 Affected products1

  • rubygems/kramdown:< 2.3.0

🔗 References (15)