CVE-2017-0898
At a glance Severity Not available EPSS EPSS 9.72 % · percentile 95 (2026-10-27) State PUBLISHED Published 2017-09-15 Updated 2024-09-17 Assigner hackerone NVD status Modified Description Ruby before 2.4.2, 2.3.5, and 2.2.8 is vulnerable to a malicious format string which contains a precious specifier (*) with a huge minus value. Such situation can lead to a buffer overrun, resulting in a heap memory corruption or an information disclosure from the heap.
Scores Version Score Vector Scored by CVSS 3.0 CRITICAL 9.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) CVSS 2.0 MEDIUM 6.4 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
Weaknesses (CWE)
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CERT-FR advisories
Affected configurations (NVD CPE) cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.2.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*Affected products
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