CVE-2023-53158

State: Published
Severity: 4.1 Medium
Published: Jul 28, 2025
Updated: Jul 28, 2025
Reserved: Jul 28, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	mitre

Weaknesses

CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
gix-transportGitoxideLabs	before 0.36.1Affected

References

https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2023-0064.html
https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide/pull/1032
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rrjw-j4m2-mf34
https://crates.io/crates/gix-transport

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