CVE-2024-27282

Publication date 14 May 2024

Last updated 15 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue was discovered in Ruby 3.x through 3.3.0. If attacker-supplied data is provided to the Ruby regex compiler, it is possible to extract arbitrary heap data relative to the start of the text, including pointers and sensitive strings. The fixed versions are 3.0.7, 3.1.5, 3.2.4, and 3.3.1.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby2.5 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.5.1-1ubuntu1.16+esm5
ruby2.7 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.7.0-5ubuntu1.13
ruby3.1 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic
Fixed 3.1.2-7ubuntu3.2
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.2 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby2.3 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
ruby3.0 25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.0.2-7ubuntu2.6
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
jruby 25.04 plucky
Needs evaluation
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Notes

mdeslaur

This also affects 2.x

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.6 · Medium
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:L