CVE-2026-54171

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

This medium-severity CVE scores 6.5 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.4% (35th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs). No GitHub Security Advisory CVSS is on record for this CVE.

Triggered by: Headline CVSS from a secondary CVSS source
Sources: EPSS, a secondary CVSS source
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.4%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Excon is usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby. Prior to 1.5.0, Excon's RedirectFollower middleware failed to strip additional sensitive headers when following redirects and did not provide a custom list of headers to strip. This could cause inadvertent leakage of sensitive data when the initial request includes header information that is not intended for the new target. This issue is fixed in version 1.5.0.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
29
EG Risk 29/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity65% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 6.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at every mission impact level.
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.4%
EPSS %ILE
35th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (6.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 6.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
6.5 MEDIUMCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.a secondary CVSS source · CVSS v3.0 or v3.1
EG Likelihood
0.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-17). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at every mission impact level.CISA BOD 26-04: 60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at every mission impact level.

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)60 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

July 10, 2026

Last Modified

July 29, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Jul 17, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github_commit, github_pr, github.
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

redact additional sensitive/risky headers when following redirects · Advisory · excon/excon · GitHub

https://github.com/excon/excon/security/advisories/GHSA-48rx-c7pg-q66r
GitHub pull request

expand redirect header redaction

Fix merged in excon/excon PR #901 on 2026-06-03 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/excon/excon/pull/901
GitHub commit

commit ea89a35308a1 (excon/excon)

Fix landed in excon/excon commit ea89a35308a1 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/excon/excon/commit/ea89a35308a12f4b791b6c50f2cbd33f94889fa3

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-54171(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Affected Packages

(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ruby-excon0.112.0-1 ... 1.6.0-1 (14 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:12(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ruby-excon0.112.0-1 ... 1.7.1-1 (15 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:13(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ruby-excon0.112.0-4 ... 1.7.1-1 (11 versions)
  • every version on: no fix on record
—
Debian:14(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
ruby-excon0.112.0-4 ... 1.4.2-1 (7 versions)
  • every version up to 1.5.0-1: fixed in 1.5.0-1
—
RubyGems(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
excon0.0.1 ... 1.4.2 (278 versions)
  • every version up to 1.5.0: fixed in 1.5.0
—

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 40× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 167 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 67 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  2. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  3. 2026-10-18 03:31 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-17 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  5. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  6. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  7. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  8. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  9. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  10. 2026-10-12 15:56 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-11 19:40 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-11 16:55 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-11 14:18 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  15. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  16. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  17. 2026-10-08 17:12 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  18. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  19. 2026-10-06 15:18 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  20. 2026-10-05 17:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  21. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  22. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  23. 2026-10-02 17:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  24. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  25. 2026-10-01 14:57 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-01 14:57 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  3. 2026-09-29 15:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  4. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  5. 2026-09-28 09:46 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-28 09:46 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  8. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  9. 2026-09-24 14:04 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 34th percentile
  10. 2026-09-24 11:09 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-24 11:09 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  13. 2026-09-23 05:44 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-09-23 05:44 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  16. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  17. 2026-09-18 05:17 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-18 05:17 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-17 19:31 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  20. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  21. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  22. 2026-09-14 08:49 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-09-14 08:49 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-09-13 16:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  25. 2026-09-13 08:10 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-09-13 08:10 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-12 02:45 UTCEG score recompute
  28. 2026-09-12 02:45 UTCVendor advisory
  29. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  30. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 36th percentile
  31. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  32. 2026-09-08 02:45 UTCEG score recompute
  33. 2026-09-08 02:45 UTCVendor advisory
  34. 2026-09-07 16:01 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  35. 2026-09-06 13:47 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  36. 2026-09-05 21:40 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-05 21:40 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-04 05:06 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
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  43. 2026-08-30 06:12 UTCEG score recompute
  44. 2026-08-30 06:12 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  46. 2026-08-28 21:41 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  47. 2026-08-27 21:40 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-08-27 21:40 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  50. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  51. 2026-08-26 12:53 UTCEG score recompute
  52. 2026-08-26 12:53 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 35th percentile
  54. 2026-08-25 10:03 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-08-25 10:03 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-08-24 09:25 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-08-23 07:10 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-08-23 07:10 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-08-23 00:19 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  60. 2026-08-22 06:32 UTCEG score recompute
  61. 2026-08-22 06:32 UTCVendor advisory
  62. 2026-08-21 23:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  63. 2026-08-21 05:54 UTCEG score recompute
  64. 2026-08-21 05:54 UTCVendor advisory
  65. 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile
  66. 2026-08-20 05:17 UTCEG score recompute
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  69. 2026-08-19 04:39 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  71. 2026-08-18 03:44 UTCEG score recompute
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  74. 2026-08-17 02:51 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 23rd percentile

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-54171?
CVE-2026-54171 is a medium-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on July 10, 2026. Excon is usable, fast, simple HTTP 1.1 for Ruby. Prior to 1.5.0, Excon's RedirectFollower middleware failed to strip additional sensitive headers when following redirects and did not provide a custom list of headers to strip. This could cause inadvertent leakage of sensitive data when the initial…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-54171 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-54171 was published on July 10, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of July 29, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-54171 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-54171 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (35th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-54171?
CVE-2026-54171 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-54171?
A fix for CVE-2026-54171 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-54171 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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