Access Restriction Bypass Affecting ruby package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.51% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-RUBY-10078274
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed2 Mar 2011
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Mar 2011

CVE-2011-1005  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for ruby.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The safe-level feature in Ruby 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-420, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-330, and 1.8.8dev allows context-dependent attackers to modify strings via the Exception#to_s method, as demonstrated by changing an intended pathname.

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CVSS Base Scores

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