Use After Free Affecting ruby package, versions [4.0.0,4.0.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (38th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-17660647
  • published27 Jun 2026
  • disclosed23 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 May 2026

CVE-2026-46727  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 4.0.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use After Free in the rb_getaddrinfo process. An attacker can cause a crash or potentially achieve memory corruption by delaying DNS responses near the user-specified timeout, for example, through a crafted authoritative DNS server or recursive resolver.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1