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Advisory record · GHSA-wg6j-r28m-7293

Code backdoor in simple_captcha2

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.031 · 87th percentile

Critical, because:

  • CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 31 Jul 2019, 04:21 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
simple_captcha2RubyGems=0.2.3No fixed version yet
Identifiers
GHSA-wg6j-r28m-7293 · CVE-2019-14282
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-94
Tags
Published
31 Jul 2019
Updated
13 Mar 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
9.8 Critical 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.031, the 87th percentile, on 10 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the GitHub Advisory Database, published 31 Jul 2019. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

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