Use After Free Affecting ruby package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.62% (70th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-RUBY-15170838
  • published2 Feb 2026
  • disclosed2 Feb 2026
  • creditsp2ip

Introduced: 2 Feb 2026

NewCVE-2024-27282  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (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 Use After Free in regexec.c, which allows an attacker to read arbitrary heap memory, including pointers and sensitive strings.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1