CVE-2015-7541

CRITICAL

colorscore < 0.0.5 - OS Command Injection via Histogram Image Path

Title source: manual
STIX 2.1

Description

The initialize method in the Histogram class in lib/colorscore/histogram.rb in the colorscore gem before 0.0.5 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the (1) image_path, (2) colors, or (3) depth variable.

References (3)

Core 3
Core References
Various Sources x_refsource_misc
http://rubysec.com/advisories/CVE-2015-7541/
Mailing List mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/01/05/2

Scores

CVSS v3 10.0
EPSS 0.0130
EPSS Percentile 80.0%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-77
Status published
Products (2)
colorscore_project/colorscore < 0.0.4
rubygems/colorscore 0 - 0.0.5RubyGems
Published Jan 08, 2016
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026