Arbitrary Memory Access Vulnerability in Ruby Programming Language
CVE-2024-27282
6.6MEDIUM
What is CVE-2024-27282?
A vulnerability exists in Ruby versions up to 3.3.0 that allows an attacker to exploit the regex compiler by supplying specially crafted input. This exploitation can lead to unauthorized access to sensitive information, including pointers and confidential strings stored in the heap memory. Users of Ruby 3.x are urged to update to the fixed versions 3.0.7, 3.1.5, 3.2.4, or 3.3.1 to mitigate this security issue and protect their applications from potential data compromise.