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CVE-2019-16779

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.8 EPSS 1.44% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2019-12-16 · 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-2019-16779
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
5.8
EPSS
1.44%

Original NVD 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.