About “Ruby”

A curated feed of “Ruby”-related CVEs appears below. We currently track 499 CVEs for this tag (all time). In the last 365 days, 66 were published. Average CVSS is 7.1 (all time; 7.2 over 365d), and 58% are rated High/Critical (all time). Top CWEs (last 365 days): CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption, CWE-347 - Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature, CWE-79 - Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting').

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CVSS ≥ 0.0
2008-04-18
Medium

CVE-2008-1891

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8.4 and earlier, 1.8.5 before 1.8.5-p231, 1.8.6 before 1.8.6-p230, 1.8.7 before 1.8.7-p22, and 1.9.0 before 1.9.0-2, when using NTFS or FAT file…

2008-03-04
Medium

CVE-2008-1145

Directory traversal vulnerability in WEBrick in Ruby 1.8 before 1.8.5-p115 and 1.8.6-p114, and 1.9 through 1.9.0-1, when running on systems that support backslash (\) path separators or case-insensit…

2007-11-30
Medium

CVE-2007-6183

Format string vulnerability in the mdiag_initialize function in gtk/src/rbgtkmessagedialog.c in Ruby-GNOME 2 (aka Ruby/Gnome2) 0.16.0, and SVN versions before 20071127, allows context-dependent attac…

2007-11-14
Medium

CVE-2007-5770

The (1) Net::ftptls, (2) Net::telnets, (3) Net::imap, (4) Net::pop, and (5) Net::smtp libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 do not verify that the commonName (CN) field in a server certificate matches th…

2007-10-01
Medium

CVE-2007-5162

The connect method in lib/net/http.rb in the (1) Net::HTTP and (2) Net::HTTPS libraries in Ruby 1.8.5 and 1.8.6 does not verify that the commonName (CN) field in a server certificate matches the doma…

2007-05-14
High

CVE-2007-2666

Stack-based buffer overflow in LexRuby.cxx (SciLexer.dll) in Scintilla 1.73, as used by notepad++ 4.1.1 and earlier, allows user-assisted remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain Ruby (…

2007-02-08
High

CVE-2006-6979

The ruby handlers in the Magnatune component in Amarok do not properly quote text in certain contexts, probably including construction of an unzip command line, which allows attackers to execute arbi…

2006-12-31
Medium

CVE-2006-6852

Eval injection vulnerability in tDiary 2.0.3 and 2.1.4.200 61127 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary Ruby code via unspecified vectors, possibly related to incorrect input validati…

2006-12-06
Medium

CVE-2006-6303

The read_multipart function in cgi.rb in Ruby before 1.8.5-p2 does not properly detect boundaries in MIME multipart content, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop)…

2006-10-27
Medium

CVE-2006-5467

The cgi.rb CGI library for Ruby 1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via an HTTP request with a multipart MIME body that contains an invalid bo…

2006-08-14
High

CVE-2006-4111

Ruby on Rails before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute Ruby code with "severe" or "serious" impact via a File Upload request with an HTTP header that modifies the LOAD_PATH variable, a differe…

High

CVE-2006-4112

Unspecified vulnerability in the "dependency resolution mechanism" in Ruby on Rails 1.1.0 through 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code via a URL that is not properly handled i…

2006-07-21
Medium

CVE-2006-3694

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in Ruby before 1.8.5 allow remote attackers to bypass "safe level" checks via unspecified vectors involving (1) the alias function and (2) "directory operations".

2006-05-25
High

CVE-2006-2582

The editing form in RWiki 2.1.0pre1 through 2.1.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary Ruby code via unknown attack vectors.

2006-04-20
Medium

CVE-2006-1931

The HTTP/XMLRPC server in Ruby before 1.8.2 uses blocking sockets, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (blocked connections) via a large amount of data.

2005-10-07
High

CVE-2005-2337

Ruby 1.6.x up to 1.6.8, 1.8.x up to 1.8.2, and 1.9.0 development up to 2005-09-01 allows attackers to bypass safe level and taint flag protections and execute disallowed code when Ruby processes a pr…

2005-06-20
High

CVE-2005-1992

The XMLRPC server in utils.rb for the ruby library (libruby) 1.8 sets an invalid default value that prevents "security protection" using handlers, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary c…

2005-03-01
Medium

CVE-2004-0983

The CGI module in Ruby 1.6 before 1.6.8, and 1.8 before 1.8.2, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a certain HTTP request.

2004-10-20
Low

CVE-2004-0755

The FileStore capability in CGI::Session for Ruby before 1.8.1, and possibly PStore, creates files with insecure permissions, which can allow local users to steal session information and hijack sessi…