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> We assume that the attacker has obtained the credentials to publish the malicious RubyGems package from one of the two maintainers, but this has not been offi
by saurabhnanda 7y ago
> We assume that the attacker has obtained the credentials to publish the malicious RubyGems package from one of the two maintainers, but this has not been officially confirmed.
Didn't this _also_ require a commit to the relevant Git repo? Or is it possible to upload a tarball directly to Rubygems without it being backed by a git repo?
- joekrill 7y ago5th Paragraph in: > The backdoor was wisely hidden in the 3.2.0.3 version that was only published to RubyGems and no source of the malicious version existed on the GitHub repository and allowed remote attackers to dynamically execute code on servers hosting the vulnerable versions.