CVE-2013-4479
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.8
Description
lib/sup/message_chunks.rb in Sup before 0.13.2.1 and 0.14.x before 0.14.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the content_type of an email attachment.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1 |
| sid | Fixed | 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1 |
| forky | Fixed | 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 0.12.1+git20120407.aaa852f-1+deb7u1 |
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20140524005344/http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2013-October/004996.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-September/165917.html
- http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/sup-talk/2013-October/004996.html
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Oct/272
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55294
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55400
- http://www.debian.org/security/2012/dsa-2805
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/10/30/2
- https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/commit/ca0302e0c716682d2de22e9136400c704cc93e42
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4479
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sup/CVE-2013-4479.yml
- https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup
- http://www.phenoelit.org/stuff/whatsup.txt
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4479
CWEs
CWE-94
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.