GHSA-qrqm-fpv6-6r8g: mechanize (CVE-2021-21289)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
mechanize	RubyGems	>=2.0.0, <2.7.7	2.7.7

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

Mechanize versions 2.0.0 up to but not including 2.7.7 are vulnerable to OS command injection through several methods that use Ruby's Kernel.open, such as CookieJar#load, Mechanize#download, and File#save. An attacker can exploit this only when untrusted input is passed as a local filename to these calls, allowing them to run operating system commands. Upgrade to Mechanize 2.7.7 or later; the advisory lists no workarounds.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.4	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:N	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.035, the 89th percentile, on 9 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 15:16 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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