CVE-2021-21289 HIGH

CVE-2021-21289: Command Injection Vulnerability in Mechanize

Vendor Sparklemotion
Product mechanize
Weakness CWE-78
Published February 2, 2021
Last update August 3, 2024

CVSS base score

7.4/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality None
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Mechanize is an open-source ruby library that makes automated web interaction easy. In Mechanize from version 2.0.0 and before version 2.7.7 there is a command injection vulnerability. Affected versions of mechanize allow for OS commands to be injected using several classes' methods which implicitly use Ruby's Kernel.open method. Exploitation is possible only if untrusted input is used as a local filename and passed to any of these calls: Mechanize::CookieJar#load, Mechanize::CookieJar#save_as, Mechanize#download, Mechanize::Download#save, Mechanize::File#save, and Mechanize::FileResponse#read_body. This is fixed in version 2.7.7.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 2, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated