CVE-2020-8130 OS Command Injection in Rake

What is CVE-2020-8130?

CVE-2020-8130 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 24 Feb 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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 `|`.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-8130?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including rake. It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Ruby-Lang Rake.

How do I fix CVE-2020-8130?

Upgrade rake to 12.3.3 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2020-8130 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-8130 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-8130, DLA-2120-1, GHSA-jppv-gw3r-w3q8, MGASA-2020-0121, SUSE-SU-2022:3212-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-8130 and 1 more.