CVE-2026-33635

MEDIUM

iCalendar has ICS injection via unsanitized URI property values

Title source: cna
STIX 2.1

Description

iCalendar is a Ruby library for dealing with iCalendar files in the iCalendar format defined by RFC-5545. Starting in version 2.0.0 and prior to version 2.12.2, .ics serialization does not properly sanitize URI property values, enabling ICS injection through attacker-controlled input, adding arbitrary calendar lines to the output. `Icalendar::Values::Uri` falls back to the raw input string when `URI.parse` fails and later serializes it with `value.to_s` without removing or escaping `\r` or `\n` characters. That value is embedded directly into the final ICS line by the normal serializer, so a payload containing CRLF can terminate the original property and create a new ICS property or component. (It looks like you can inject via url, source, image, organizer, attach, attendee, conference, tzurl because of this). Applications that generate `.ics` files from partially untrusted metadata are impacted. As a result, downstream calendar clients or importers may process attacker-supplied content as if it were legitimate event data, such as added attendees, modified URLs, alarms, or other calendar fields. Version 2.12.2 contains a patch for the issue.

Scores

CVSS v3 4.3
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 11.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation poc
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-93
Status published
Products (3)
icalendar/icalendar >= 2.0.0, < 2.12.2
icalendar_project/icalendar 2.0.0 - 2.12.2
rubygems/icalendar 2.0.0 - 2.12.2RubyGems
Published Mar 26, 2026
Tracked Since Mar 27, 2026