CyberRota Analysis
This is a critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.8. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2017-11465
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.8
EPSS
1.68%
Original NVD Description
The parser_yyerror function in the UTF-8 parser in Ruby 2.4.1 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid write or read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted Ruby script, related to the parser_tokadd_utf8 function in parse.y. NOTE: this might have security relevance as a bypass of a $SAFE protection mechanism.
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