Improper Privilege Management Affecting brakeman package, versions >=4.5.0, <4.7.1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.04% (6th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-BRAKEMAN-480459
- published 8 Nov 2019
- disclosed 24 Oct 2019
- credit fwininger
Introduced: 24 Oct 2019
CVE-2019-18409 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade brakeman to version 4.7.1 or higher.
Overview
brakeman is an is a gem that detects security vulnerabilities in Ruby on Rails applications via static analysis.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Privilege Management as it allows local privilege escalation because of world-writable files. A local user can insert malicious code into the ruby_parser-legacy-1.0.0/lib/ruby_parser/legacy/ruby_parser.rb file.