Applications using Asciidoctor (Ruby) with asciidoctor-include-ext (prior to version 0.4.0), which render user-supplied input in AsciiDoc markup, may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary system commands on the host operating system. This attack is possible even when (EDIT: itβs not)allow-uri-read
is disabled!
The vulnerability has been fixed in commit c7ea001 (and further improved in cbaccf3), which is included in version 0.4.0.
require 'asciidoctor/include_ext'
class Asciidoctor::IncludeExt::IncludeProcessor
# Overrides superclass private method to mitigate Command Injection
# vulnerability in asciidoctor-include-ext <0.4.0.
def target_uri?(target)
target.downcase.start_with?('http://', 'https://') \
&& URI.parse(target).is_a?(URI::HTTP)
rescue URI::InvalidURIError
false
end
end
This vulnerability was discovered by Joern Schneeweisz from the GitLab Security Research Team.
See commit message c7ea001.
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory open an issue in jirutka/asciidoctor-include-ext.
github.com/jirutka/asciidoctor-include-ext
github.com/jirutka/asciidoctor-include-ext/commit/c7ea001a597c7033575342c51483dab7b87ae155
github.com/jirutka/asciidoctor-include-ext/commit/cbaccf3de533cbca224bf61d0b74e4b84d41d8ee
github.com/jirutka/asciidoctor-include-ext/security/advisories/GHSA-v222-6mr4-qj29
github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/asciidoctor-include-ext/CVE-2022-24803.yml
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-24803