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CVE-2021-41816

CRITICAL
9.8CVSS
Published: 2022-02-06
Updated: 2024-11-21
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Description

CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.

CVSS Metrics

Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector
network
Complexity
low
Privileges
none
User Action
none
Scope
unchanged
Confidentiality
high
Integrity
high
Availability
high
Weaknesses
CWE-190

Metadata

Primary Vendor
RUBY-LANG
Published
2/6/2022
Last Modified
11/21/2024
Source
NIST NVD
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Affected Products

ruby-lang : cgiruby-lang : cgiruby-lang : cgifedoraproject : fedorafedoraproject : fedora

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