Double Free Affecting ruby package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.46% (64th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-RUBY-14930363
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed13 Jan 2026
  • creditpiao

Introduced: 13 Jan 2026

NewCVE-2022-28738  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-415  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Double Free in the Regexp compilation process. An attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by supplying a specially crafted regular expression source string.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1