CVE-2019-16779

MEDIUM

RubyGem excon <0.71.0 - Info Disclosure

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 5.8
EPSS 0.0056
EPSS Percentile 68.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-362 CWE-664
Status published
Products (5)
debian/debian_linux 8.0
excon_project/excon < 0.71.0
opensuse/backports_sle 15.0 sp1
opensuse/leap 15.1
rubygems/excon 0 - 0.71.0RubyGems
Published Dec 16, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026