Concerns of supply-chain attacks amplify as remote code execution was found in Ruby gem strong_password
On July 5th, 2019, the CVE-2019-13354 security advisory was published for a malicious version of the strong_password Ruby gem which allows for remote code execution in applications bundling the vulnerable dependency.
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