CVE-2019-16779

Description

In RubyGem excon before 0.71.0, there was a race condition around persistent connections, where a connection which is interrupted (such as by a timeout) would leave data on the socket. Subsequent requests would then read this data, returning content from the previous response. The race condition window appears to be short, and it would be difficult to purposefully exploit this.

Risk Information

Base Score
5.9
MODERATE
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
Exploitation Probability
0.556

Associated Vulnerability

VulnerabilityOS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-16779 are fixed in Ruby-excon 0.71.0Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2019-16779 are fixed in Ruby-excon for Linux 0.71.0Linux

Patch Details

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References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234