PT-2019-13440 · Ruby · Paranoid2

Published 2019-07-14 · Updated 2020-08-24 · CVE-2019-13589

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions paranoid2 gem version 1.1.6

Description The issue concerns a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party into the paranoid2 gem for Ruby. This backdoor was present in the version distributed on RubyGems.org.

Recommendations For version 1.1.6, downgrade to version 1.1.5 to remove the backdoor.

Exploit

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-829

Related Identifiers

CVE-2019-13589

GHSA-4G4C-8GQH-M4VM

SNYK-RUBY-PARANOID2-451600

Affected Products

Paranoid2

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems.org/issues/2051 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/paranoid2/CVE-2019-13589.yml · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-4g4c-8gqh-m4vm · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-13589 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13589 · Security Note
• https://rubygems.org/gems/paranoid2/versions · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/anjlab/paranoid2 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/109281 · Note
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-RUBY-PARANOID2-451600 · Note