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CVE-2019-16255

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 4.19% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-11-26 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

Detected Signals
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CVE
CVE-2019-16255
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
4.19%

Original NVD Description

Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 allows code injection if the first argument (aka the "command" argument) to Shell#[] or Shell#test in lib/shell.rb is untrusted data. An attacker can exploit this to call an arbitrary Ruby method.