VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2009-1904

CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability12.78%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2009-06-11
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string argument that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type.

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