CVE-2019-8323
rubygems: Escape sequence injection vulnerability in API response handling
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · March 5, 2019
Updated · November 2, 2026
Description
An issue was discovered in RubyGems 2.6 and later through 3.0.2. Gem::GemcutterUtilities#with_response may output the API response to stdout as it is. Therefore, if the API side modifies the response, escape sequence injection may occur.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.3CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE-88 · Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command