Description
An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.
Published: 2018-11-16
Score: 8.1 High
EPSS: 3.3% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1558-1 ruby2.1 security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4332-1 ruby2.3 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2018-8239 An issue was discovered in Ruby before 2.3.8, 2.4.x before 2.4.5, 2.5.x before 2.5.2, and 2.6.x before 2.6.0-preview3. It does not taint strings that result from unpacking tainted strings with some formats.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3808-1 Ruby vulnerabilities
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.03193}

epss

{'score': 0.03423}


Subscriptions

Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Debian Debian Linux
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Aus Rhel E4s Rhel Eus Rhel Software Collections Rhel Tus
Ruby-lang Ruby
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T10:24:32.115Z

Reserved: 2018-09-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-16396

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-11-16T18:29:01.083

Modified: 2024-11-21T03:52:40.320

Link: CVE-2018-16396

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-10-17T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-16396 - Bugzilla

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