CVE-2015-10096 Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot twitter_announcer.rb get_tweets command injection
Remote attackers can execute arbitrary commands via the get_tweets function in the Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2015-10096?
CVE-2015-10096 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot, published on 20 Mar 2023. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in Zarthus IRC Twitter Announcer Bot up to 1.1.0. This affects the function get_tweets of the file lib/twitterbot/plugins/twitter_announcer.rb. The manipulation of the argument tweet leads to command injection. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. Upgrading to version 1.1.1 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 6b1941b7fc2c70e1f40981b43c84a2c20cc12bd3. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-223383.
Weakness: CWE-77
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-10096?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Irc Twitter Announcer Bot Project Irc Twitter Announcer Bot.
How do I fix CVE-2015-10096?
No fix has been published for CVE-2015-10096 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.
Is CVE-2015-10096 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-10096 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-hmv7-wgxc-xvjj.