SOC status:Duty analyst on shift

UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2016-2336

Attacker passing different type of object than this assumed by developers can cause arbitrary code execution.

CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 3.29%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (3.29%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

Type confusion exists in two methods of Ruby's WIN32OLE class, ole_invoke and ole_query_interface. Attacker passing different type of object than this assumed by developers can cause arbitrary code execution.

CVSS 3.0
9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
3.29% probability · 88th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Affected
ruby-lang/ruby
Source
cret@cert.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.