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CVE-2020-8130

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-8130 is an OS command injection vulnerability in Ruby Rake versions prior to 12.3.3, specifically within the Rake::FileList component when processing filenames starting with a pipe character. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.4 (Medium), indicating a high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability, but requires high privileges and local access to exploit. Despite its potential impact, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no publicly available exploit code in common databases like Metasploit or ExploitDB, and minimal community discussion or media coverage, with only one article mentioning it in the context of a GitLab security release.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 12.3.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:rake:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*
19.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.4MEDIUM

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
0.5
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.36%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
68.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0136 is in the 96th percentile among its peer group of 418 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.10 for RHEL 7Fixed in: satellite-0:6.10.0-3.el7sat
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rakeFixed in: 12.3.3
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: cfme-amazon-smartstate
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: cfme-gemset
redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Storage 3Fixed in: rubygem-rake

Vendor Advisories (3)

rubygemsGHSA-jppv-gw3r-w3q8medium

OS Command Injection in Rake

Feb 28, 2020
microsoft2020-Feb/CVE-2020-8130Moderate

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 `|`.

Feb 11, 2020
redhatCVE-2020-8130Moderate

rake: OS Command Injection via egrep in Rake::FileList

Aug 29, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-03/msg00041.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
hackerone.com / reports/651518
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/523CLQ62VRN3VVC52KMPTROCCKY4Z36B
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VXMX4ARNX2JLRJMSH4N3J3UBMUT5CI44
usn.ubuntu.com / 4295-1
Third Party Advisory