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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-33635 EUVD-2026-16411GHSA-pv9c-9mfh-hvxq

iCalendar has ICS injection via unsanitized URI property values

Published Mar 26, 2026 · Updated Mar 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
icalendar icalendar >= 2.0.0, < 2.12.2 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 12 ruby-icalendar No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-icalendar No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-icalendar No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems icalendar >= 2.0.0, < 2.12.2 2.12.2 GHSA-pv9c-9mfh-hvxq

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