CVE-2019-15224

highpriority · attend · 50EPSS 0.035 · 89 %ileexploit · PoCEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · PoC

Likely / severe?

3.55% (89th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

13 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd · osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

The rest-client gem 1.6.10 through 1.6.13 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. Versions <=1.6.9 and >=1.6.14 are unaffected.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.09.8criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.09.3criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimaryCWE-94US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

chef-cft/inspec_cve_2019_15224Example InSpec profile to detect presence of a malicious rest-client gem (CVE-2019-15224)PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (13)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
rest-client project rest-client1.6.10 → 1.6.13nvdUScpe:2.3:a:rest-client_project:rest-client:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
RubyGems awesome-botall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/awesome-bot
RubyGems bitcoin_vanityall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/bitcoin_vanity
RubyGems blockchain_walletall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/blockchain_wallet
RubyGems capistrano-colorsall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/capistrano-colors
RubyGems coin_baseall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/coin_base
RubyGems coming-soonall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/coming-soon
RubyGems cron_parserall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/cron_parser
RubyGems cron_parser1.0.13 → 1.0.14osvUSpkg:gem/cron_parser
RubyGems doge-coinall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/doge-coin
RubyGems omniauth_amazonall versionsosvUSpkg:gem/omniauth_amazon
RubyGems rest-client1.6.10 → 1.7.0osvUSpkg:gem/rest-client

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-333g-rpr4-7hxqrest-client Gem Contains Malicious Code2019-08-20ghsa · osvUS
The rest-client gem 1.6.10 through 1.6.13 for Ruby, as distributed on RubyGems.org, included a code-execution backdoor inserted by a third party. Users of an affected version should consider downgrading to the last non-affected version of 1.6.9, or upgrading to 1.7.x. Additionally, a set of other minor gems have been partially or completely yanked and are included in this advisory. These include cron_parser, coin_base, blockchain_wallet, awesome-bot, doge-coin, capistrano-colors, bitcoin_vanity, lita_coin, coming-soon, and omniauth_amazon.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-08-19modified 2026-06-17

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references (7)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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