CVE-2017-14064 is a critical vulnerability in Ruby versions through 2.2.7, 2.3.x through 2.3.4, and 2.4.x through 2.4.1, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and Red Hat. It allows for arbitrary memory exposure during a JSON.generate call due to an issue with strdup in the JSON generator extension. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), indicating a severe impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 2.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.0:preview1:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.0:preview2:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.3.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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