CVE-2019-16779CWE-664

In RubyGem excon, interrupted Persistent Connections May Leak Response Data

Medium · published December 16, 2019

CVSS v3.1
5.8
EPSS
2%
Percentile
76.5
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01662 · 76.5th percentile
Weakness
CWE-664 · Improper Control of a Resource Through its Lifetime
Published
2019-12-16T19:35Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 16 DEC 19:35Z
    In RubyGem excon, interrupted Persistent Connections May Leak Response Data
    cvelistv5