CVE-2020-8130: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

There is an OS command injection vulnerability in Ruby Rake < 12.3.3 in Rake::FileList when supplying a filename that begins with the pipe character `|`.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 16.04 only; version 18.04 only; version 19.10 only
• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only
• Ruby-Lang Rake: before 12.3.3 (fixed in 12.3.3)

Published 2020-02-24. Last modified 2026-06-17.