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CVE-2020-8130There is an OS command injection vulnerability in Ruby Rake < 12.3.3 in Rake::FileList when supplying a filename that begins with the pipe…
- 6.4MediumCVSS base score
- 1.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 28% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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 `|`.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 27 days later
· 27 days later
Published
- 4 years later
· 4 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.4% · top 28% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.4.
Affected products
https://github.com/ruby/ruby
- affected Fixed in Rake 12.3.3
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrakeGHSA-jppv-gw3r-w3q8 (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://hackerone.com/reports/651518 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20200226 [SECURITY] [DLA 2120-1] rake security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- USN-4295-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2020:0395 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-28e06b5f08 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-dc1ae17bb5 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2020-0305 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-jppv-gw3r-w3q8 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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