CVE-2023-53158

Publication date 28 July 2025

Last updated 28 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

The gix-transport crate before 0.36.1 for Rust allows command execution via the "gix clone 'ssh://-oProxyCommand=open$IFS" substring. NOTE: this was discovered before CVE-2024-32884, a similar vulnerability (involving a username field) that is more difficult to exploit.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
rust-gix-transport 26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 4.1 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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