CVE-2026-79590

high

Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Prism parser component of mruby 4.0.0. An attacker can provide a specially crafted Ruby source file that triggers the parser to pass a NULL pointer to nonnull string handling functions, resulting in undefined behavior and application crash.

References

https://github.com/takumin/mruby/commit/c6866eed4ad5640b552ba79d16063e7ec70a0ac9

https://github.com/mruby/mruby/issues/7032

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-10

Updated: 2026-09-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00155