CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-2337

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2017-01-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-01-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.

Affected configurations

• ruby-lang ruby 2.2.2 • ruby-lang ruby 2.3.0

References