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CVE-2020-8130

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-02-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

There is an OS command injection vulnerability in Ruby Rake < 12.3.3 in Rake::FileList when supplying a filename that begins with the pipe character `|`.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30, 31
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1
• ruby-lang Rake: before 12.3.3 — fixed in 12.3.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: ruby-lang Rake 12.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/651518
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00026.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/523CLQ62VRN3VVC52KMPTROCCKY4Z36B/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXMX4ARNX2JLRJMSH4N3J3UBMUT5CI44/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4295-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.html
• https://hackerone.com/reports/651518
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00026.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/523CLQ62VRN3VVC52KMPTROCCKY4Z36B/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXMX4ARNX2JLRJMSH4N3J3UBMUT5CI44/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4295-1/

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