Auditing the Ruby ecosystem
Summary: Ruby Central hired Trail of Bits to audit RubyGems.org, the Ruby ecosystem's package repository with over 184 billion downloads, and the review over five engineer-weeks in August and September 2024 found 33 issues. These included one high-severity finding that the SMTP mailer's enable_starttls_auto setting falls back to unencrypted transmission if StartTLS fails, allowing a downgrade attack, and a medium-risk finding of no multi-party approval for production deployments.
What's compelling: A single high-severity email flaw and missing dual approval on production deployments sit in the same repository that supplies dependencies to millions of applications, so an attacker who exploits either reaches far beyond Ruby Central's own team.
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- OT / ICS & Critical Infrastructure
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