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CVE-2017-15928

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15928 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Ox gem 2.8.0 for Ruby, where a specially crafted input to the parse_obj function can cause a segmentation fault and crash the process. This vulnerability is rated as High severity (CVSS 7.5), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, leading to a complete loss of availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.8.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ox_project:ox:2.8.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

7.5HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.71%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
75.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0171 is in the 58th percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: oxFixed in: 2.8.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-pjj4-w39g-pw54high

Ox gem crashes due to a crafted input

Nov 21, 2017

References

github.com / ohler55/ox/issues/194
ExploitThird Party Advisory
rubygems.org / gems/ox/versions/2.8.0
Vendor Advisory