Ruby-ffi has a DLL loading issue · CVE-2018-1000201 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Ruby-ffi has a DLL loading issue

High severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 31, 2018 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 31, 2023

Package

ffi (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 1.9.24

Patched versions

1.9.24

Description

ruby-ffi version 1.9.23 and earlier has a DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS, when a Symbol is used as DLL name instead of a String This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v1.9.24 and later.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 31, 2018

Reviewed Jun 16, 2020

Last updated Jul 31, 2023

Severity

High

7.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Local

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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