CVE-2019-16779 — Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime in Excon
Severity
5.9MEDIUMNVD
CNA5.8
EPSS
0.6%
top 31.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 16
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NExploitability: 2.2 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages5 packages
Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0
Patches
🔴Vulnerability Details
4📋Vendor Advisories
1Debian▶
CVE-2019-16779: ruby-excon - In RubyGem excon before 0.71.0, there was a race condition around persistent con...↗2019