CSV-Safe improperly filters special characters potentially leading to CSV injection

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2022-28481 · GHSA-f55g-x8qq-2569 · Published 01/05/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-28481 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting csv-safe, csv-safe (csv-safe project).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.8%, higher than 78.1% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 3.0.0 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
csv-safe RubyGems	`< 3.0.0`	`3.0.0`
csv-safe csv-safe_project	`< 3.0.0`	`3.0.0`

CSV-Safe gem < 3.0.0 doesn't filter out special characters which could trigger CSV Injection.

NVD description

CSV-Safe gem < 3.0.0 doesn't filter out special characters which could trigger CSV Injection.

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