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CVE-2013-2065

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.4 · CWE-264
6.4CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

(1) DL and (2) Fiddle in Ruby 1.9 before 1.9.3 patchlevel 426, and 2.0 before 2.0.0 patchlevel 195, do not perform taint checking for native functions, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass intended $SAFE level restrictions.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impactNone
Exploit probability (EPSS)3%

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products we track (1)

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Official patch: https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2013/05/14/taint-bypass-dl-fiddle-cve-2013-2065/ ↗