🛡️ CVE-2013-2513 — flash-tool

🔴 CVSS 9.5 — Critical ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-77 OSV
9.5
CVSS Score
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Description

flash_tool Gem for Ruby File Download Handling Arbitrary Command Execution

flash_tool Gem for Ruby contains a flaw that is triggered during the handling of downloaded files that contain shell characters. With a specially crafted file, a context-dependent attacker can execute arbitrary commands.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-2513 is classified as CWE-77: Command Injection. User input is placed into a command that the system interprets, allowing extra commands to be appended to the intended one.

Affected software

CVE-2013-2513 is recorded against 1 package.

  • flash-tool

Timeline and source

Published on 26 January 2023 and last revised on 16 February 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

Details

Severity CRITICAL
CVSS Score 9.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-77
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2023-01-26
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-02-16
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
flash-tool — —

Exploit Protection

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