CVE-2015-7541

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-77 Command Injection

Publication date:

08/01/2016

Last modified:

12/04/2025

Description

The initialize method in the Histogram class in lib/colorscore/histogram.rb in the colorscore gem before 0.0.5 for Ruby allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via shell metacharacters in the (1) image_path, (2) colors, or (3) depth variable.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Changed
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): High
Availability (A): High

Base Score 3.x

10.00

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 10.00 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete