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rust-gix-transport — security advisory
The gix-transport crate before 0.36.1 for Rust allows command execution via the "gix clone 'ssh://-oProxyCommand=open$IFS" substring. NOTE: this was discovered before CVE-2024-32884, a similar vulnerability (involving a username field) that is more difficult to exploit.
- Products
- rust-gix-transport
- Affected versions
- 0.41.1-1, 0.41.1-1build1, 0.44.0-1, 0.48.0-1, 0.57.0-1
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-53158
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 01:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The gix-transport crate before 0.36.1 for Rust allows command execution via the "gix clone 'ssh://-oProxyCommand=open$IFS" substring. NOTE: this was discovered before CVE-2024-32884, a similar vulnerability (involving a username field) that is more difficult to exploit.
osv:UBUNTU-CVE-2023-53158
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Complete source record
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