CVE-2018-1000074: Deserialization of Untrusted Data

March 13, 2018 (updated May 20, 2019)

RubyGems contains a Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in owner command that can result in code execution. This attack appears to be exploitable when the victim runs the gem owner command on a gem with a specially crafted YAML file.

References

blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1000074

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