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CVE-2017-14064

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FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.9
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0945 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 36,833 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (20)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby-0:2.0.0.648-33.el7_4
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby-0:2.4.2-86.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby-0:2.2.9-19.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Fixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby-0:2.3.6-67.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby-0:2.4.2-86.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby-0:2.2.9-19.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby-0:2.3.6-67.el6
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby-0:2.4.2-86.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby-0:2.2.9-19.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby-0:2.4.2-86.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby-0:2.2.9-19.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby-0:2.3.6-67.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby24-ruby-0:2.4.2-86.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby-0:2.2.9-19.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 EUSFixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby-0:2.3.6-67.el7
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ruby23-ruby-0:2.3.6-67.el7
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redhatvendor investigatingvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset ManagerFixed in: ruby193-ruby
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: rh-ruby22-ruby
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms Management Engine 5Fixed in: ruby-200-ruby

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-14064Low

ruby: Arbitrary heap exposure during a JSON.generate call

Mar 2, 2017

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2017:3485
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0378
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0583
Third Party Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2018:0585
Third Party Advisory
bugs.ruby-lang.org / issues/13853
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
github.com / flori/json/commit/8f782fd8e181d9cfe9387ded43a5ca9692266b85
Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
hackerone.com / reports/209949
ExploitThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201710-18
Third Party Advisory
usn.ubuntu.com / 3685-1
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2017/dsa-3966
Third Party Advisory
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-2-8-released
Vendor Advisory
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2017/09/14/ruby-2-3-5-released
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/100890
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1039363
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
securitytracker.com / id/1042004
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry