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CVE-2018-1000201

high

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

https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/e0fe486df0e117ed67b0282b6ada04b7214ca05c

https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/09e0c6076466b4383da7fa4e13f714311109945a

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2gw2-8q9w-cw8p

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2018-0350

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2018-06-22

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00201