Does not seem to be related to https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713 directly, but was released at the same time as 1.6.14 (for CVE-2019-15224, "Version 1.6.13 published with malicious backdoor.").
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ed0c37e3b0716789372b0f2c49682a7002b0cf7e commit ed0c37e3b0716789372b0f2c49682a7002b0cf7e Author: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2019-10-13 08:17:12 +0000 Commit: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2019-10-13 08:17:12 +0000 dev-ruby/rest-client: add 2.1.0 Fixes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/692724 Package-Manager: Portage-2.3.76, Repoman-2.3.16 Signed-off-by: Hans de Graaff <graaff@gentoo.org> dev-ruby/rest-client/Manifest | 1 + dev-ruby/rest-client/rest-client-2.1.0.ebuild | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)