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High · 7.0 CVE-2022-39224 EUVD-2022-6740GHSA-88cv-mj24-8w3q

Arbitrary shell execution when extracting or listing files contained in a malicious rpm.

Published Sep 21, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Arr-pm is an RPM reader/writer library written in Ruby. Versions prior to 0.0.12 are subject to OS command injection resulting in shell execution if the RPM contains a malicious "payload compressor" field. This vulnerability impacts the `extract` and `files` methods of the `RPM::File` class of this library. Version 0.0.12 patches these issues. A workaround for this issue is to ensure any RPMs being processed contain valid/known payload compressor values such as gzip, bzip2, xz, zstd, and lzma. The payload compressor field in an rpm can be checked by using the rpm command line tool.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
jordansissel ruby-arr-pm < 0.0.12 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems arr-pm < 0.0.12 0.0.12 GHSA-88cv-mj24-8w3q

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