RubyGems Makes Multi-Factor Authentication Mandatory for Top Package Maintainers

RubyGems, the official package manager for the Ruby programming language, has become the latest platform to mandate multi-factor authentication (MFA) for popular package maintainers, following the footsteps of NPM and PyPI. To that end, owners of gems with over 180 million total downloads are mandated to turn on MFA effective August 15, 2022. <!--adsense--> "Users in this category who do not

Critical Gems Takeover Bug Reported in RubyGems Package Manager

The maintainers of the RubyGems package manager have addressed a critical security flaw that could have been abused to remove gems and replace them with rogue versions under specific circumstances. "Due to a bug in the yank action, it was possible for any RubyGems.org user to remove and replace certain gems even if that user was not authorized to do so," RubyGems said in a security advisory

RubyGems supply chain rip-and-replace bug fixed – check your logs!

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