Security context

What an agent needs to avoid regressing past fixes and find the next vuln in this repo.

ruby/irb

              master @ 6073bb0
            

Fixes

CVEs

MEDIUM

Peak severity

Highlights

Insecure Permissions: 1 prior fix. Scrutinize any change in this area.

lib/irb/ext/save-history.rb: most-fixed (1 issue). Treat as high-risk during review.

0 high-severity fixes in this history; regressions here are high-impact.

Recurring patterns

The bug types that recur here, drawn from past fixes, not open vulnerabilities.

Insecure Permissions: If IRB cannot safely restrict the permissions of its history file (for example, when encountering EPERM), it may write sensitive command history to an insecurely permissioned file, exposing user input to local attackers.