CVE-2022-39224 HIGH

CVE-2022-39224: Arbitrary shell execution when extracting or listing files contained in a malicious rpm.

Vendor Jordansissel
Product ruby-arr-pm
Weakness CWE-78
Published September 21, 2022
Last update April 22, 2025

CVSS base score

7.0/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Confidentiality High
Integrity High

CVSS vector

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

What the vulnerability does

01Description

Arr-pm is an RPM reader/writer library written in Ruby. Versions prior to 0.0.12 are subject to OS command injection resulting in shell execution if the RPM contains a malicious "payload compressor" field. This vulnerability impacts the `extract` and `files` methods of the `RPM::File` class of this library. Version 0.0.12 patches these issues. A workaround for this issue is to ensure any RPMs being processed contain valid/known payload compressor values such as gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, and lzma. The payload compressor field in an rpm can be checked by using the rpm command line tool.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 21, 2022 CVE published
April 22, 2025 Record updated