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high 7.5

CVE-2013-2617 json

Curl Gem insufficient URL escaping command injection

published 13y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-hxx6-p24v-wg8c , EUVD-2017-0255

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
4.4%
EPSS 4.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 91%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

lib/curl.rb in the Curl Gem for Ruby allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in a URL.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2013-2617 updated cvss 7.5

rubygem-curl: insufficient URL escaping command injection

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

4.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 91% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems curl
<=0.0.9
 no fix listed

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-94 Improper Control of Generation of Code

References

Sources

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