CVE-2022-36073

High

Description

RubyGems.org is the Ruby community gem host. A bug in password & email change confirmation code allowed an attacker to change their RubyGems.org account's email to an unowned email address. Having access to an account whose email has been changed could enable an attacker to save API keys for that account, and when a legitimate user attempts to create an account with their email (and has to reset password to gain access) and is granted access to other gems, the attacker would then be able to publish and yank versions of those gems. Commit number 90c9e6aac2d91518b479c51d48275c57de492d4d contains a patch for this issue.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.3
Exploit probability64. percentile1%
ProductRubygems
PublishedSep 7, 2022
First seenSep 7, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • rubygems rubygems2022-08-31 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
rubygems rubygemsv < 2022-08-312022-08-31

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