GHSA-8pqg-8p79-j5j8

GHSA-8pqg-8p79-j5j8 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 10, 2022

A double free was found in the Regexp compiler in Ruby 3.x before 3.0.4 and 3.1.x before 3.1.2. If a victim attempts to create a Regexp from untrusted user input, an attacker may be able to write to unexpected memory locations.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Timeline

May 10, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory

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References

https://hackerone.com/reports/1220911 url
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-28738 url
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220624-0002 url
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-28738 advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-27 url
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/04/12/double-free-in-regexp-compilation-cve-2022-28738 url

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