CVE-2020-8130

Publication date 24 February 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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 `|`.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
rake	19.10 eoan	Fixed 12.3.1-3ubuntu0.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 12.3.1-1ubuntu0.1
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 10.5.0-2ubuntu0.1
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
rake	Upstream: 5b8f8fc

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.4 · Medium
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4295-1
Rake vulnerability
3 March 2020