CVE-2023-53158

medium

Description

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.

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0064.html

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rrjw-j4m2-mf34

https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide/pull/1032

https://crates.io/crates/gix-transport

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2025-07-28

Updated: 2025-07-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 2.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00016