Use After Free Affecting mruby/mruby package, versions [,4.0.0-rc)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.16% (5th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MRUBYMRUBY-14038263
  • published16 Nov 2025
  • disclosed13 Nov 2025
  • creditTim Becker

Introduced: 13 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-13120  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mruby/mruby to version 4.0.0-rc or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free via the sort_cmp function in the array.c file. An attacker can execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service by triggering use of memory after it has been freed.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1