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Vulnerability details: VCID-9fjb-7wus-cfeu
Vulnerability ID VCID-9fjb-7wus-cfeu
Aliases CVE-2019-8323
GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9
Summary 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.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (4)
CWE-74 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component ('Injection')
CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')
CWE-1035 OWASP Top Ten 2017 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
CWE-937 OWASP Top Ten 2013 Category A9 - Using Components with Known Vulnerabilities
System Score Found at
cvssv3.1 7.5 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
generic_textual HIGH http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
cvssv3 5.3 https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8323.json
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
epss 0.00254 https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
cvssv3 7.5 https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
generic_textual HIGH https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
cvssv3 7.5 https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
cvssv3.1_qr HIGH https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8323.yml
generic_textual HIGH https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8323.yml
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://hackerone.com/reports/315081
generic_textual HIGH https://hackerone.com/reports/315081
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
generic_textual HIGH https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
cvssv2 5.0 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
cvssv3.1 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
generic_textual HIGH https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
Reference id Reference type URL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8323.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2019-8323
https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8320
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8321
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8322
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8323
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8324
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-8325
https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8323.yml
https://hackerone.com/reports/315081
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
1692519 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1692519
925987 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=925987
cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9 https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3h4r-pjv6-cph9
RHSA-2019:1148 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1148
RHSA-2019:1150 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1150
RHSA-2019:1235 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:1235
RHSA-2020:2769 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2769
USN-3945-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3945-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N Found at https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2019-8323.json
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://blog.rubygems.org/2019/03/05/security-advisories-2019-03.html
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Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rubygems-update/CVE-2019-8323.yml
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://hackerone.com/reports/315081
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00027.html
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Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
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Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-8323
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Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.48641
EPSS Score 0.00254
Published At June 30, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
2025-07-01T12:16:33.299953+00:00 Ubuntu USN Importer Import https://usn.ubuntu.com/3945-1/ 36.1.3