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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.1

CVE-2023-53158 json

gix-transport code execution vulnerability

published 2023-09-23 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-rrjw-j4m2-mf34 , RUSTSEC-2023-0064 , EUVD-2023-59769

cvss
4.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

The gix-transport crate before 0.36.1 for Rust allows command execution via the "gix clone 'ssh://-oProxyCommand=open$IFS" substring. NOTE: this was discovered before CVE-2024-32884, a similar vulnerability (involving a username field) that is more difficult to exploit.

Patch / fix

  • crates.io gix-transport 0.36.1
  • GitoxideLabs gix-transport 0.36.1
  • rust CBL-Mariner 2.0 1.72.0-8

azure linux advisories AZL-66020

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-53158 updated cvss 4.1

gix-transport: gix Command Execution Vulnerability

  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/vector-rhel9, openshift-logging/eventrouter-rhel9, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-rhel9-operator, openshift-logging/log-file-metric-exporter-rhel9, openshift-logging/cluster-logging-operator-bundle
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3 openshift-service-mesh/istio-cni-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-pilot-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-proxyv2-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-rhel9-operator, openshift-service-mesh/istio-must-gather-rhel9, openshift-service-mesh/istio-sail-operator-bundle, +1 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rls, rust, cargo, clippy, rustfmt, rust-gdb, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 rust, cargo, clippy, rustfmt, rust-gdb, rust-src, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 rust
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
15 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
GitHub 3.1 4.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io gix-transport
<0.36.1
>=0.0.0-0, <0.36.1
0.36.1

Affected products

  • GitoxideLabs gix-transport

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
  • CWE-88 Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command

References

Sources

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