Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting ruby package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
6.15% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-RUBY-10078267
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed6 Jan 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Jan 2017

CVE-2016-2337  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ruby.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution. Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1