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Security Advisories: MDE2OlNlY3VyaXR5QWR2aXNvcnlHSFNBLTMzM2ctcnByNC03aHhx

rest-client Gem Contains Malicious Code

The rest-client gem 1.6.10 through 1.6.13 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party.
Users of an affected version should consider downgrading to the last non-affected version of 1.6.9, or upgrading to 1.7.x.
Additionally, a set of other minor gems have been partially or completely yanked and are included in this advisory.
These include cron_parser, coin_base, blockchain_wallet, awesome-bot, doge-coin, capistrano-colors, bitcoin_vanity, lita_coin, coming-soon, and omniauth_amazon.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-333g-rpr4-7hxq
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: over 4 years ago
Updated: 7 months ago


CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-333g-rpr4-7hxq, CVE-2019-15224
References: Repository: https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client

Affected Packages

rubygems:omniauth_amazon
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:coming-soon
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:bitcoin_vanity
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:capistrano-colors
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:doge-coin
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:awesome-bot
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:blockchain_wallet
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:coin_base
Affected Version Ranges: >= 0
No known fixed version
rubygems:cron_parser
Affected Version Ranges: = 0.1.4, >= 1.0.13, <= 1.0.14
No known fixed version
rubygems:rest-client
Dependent packages: 4,209
Dependent repositories: 100,798
Downloads: 337,420,812 total
Affected Version Ranges: >= 1.6.10, <= 1.6.13
Fixed in: 1.7.0
All affected versions:
All unaffected versions: 0.5.1, 0.6.1, 0.6.2, 0.8.1, 0.8.2, 0.9.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.2, 1.0.3, 1.0.4, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.4.0, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.5.0, 1.5.1, 1.6.0, 1.6.1, 1.6.3, 1.6.5, 1.6.6, 1.6.7, 1.6.8, 1.6.9, 1.6.14, 1.7.0, 1.7.1, 1.7.2, 1.7.3, 1.8.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.1.0