CVE-2024-27282

Publication date 14 May 2024

Last updated 19 September 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.6 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An issue was discovered in Ruby 3.x through 3.3.0. If attacker-supplied data is provided to the Ruby regex compiler, it is possible to extract arbitrary heap data relative to the start of the text, including pointers and sensitive strings. The fixed versions are 3.0.7, 3.1.5, 3.2.4, and 3.3.1.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby2.3 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
ruby2.5 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 2.5.1-1ubuntu1.16+esm5
ruby2.7 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 2.7.0-5ubuntu1.13
ruby3.0 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 3.0.2-7ubuntu2.6
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.1 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic
Fixed in 3.1.2-7ubuntu3.2
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.2 26.10 stonking Not in release
26.04 LTS resolute Not in release
25.10 questing Not in release
25.04 plucky Not in release
24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed in 3.2.3-1ubuntu0.24.04.1
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
ruby3.3 26.10 stonking
Not affected
26.04 LTS resolute
Not affected
25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
23.10 mantic Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
18.04 LTS bionic Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
jruby 26.10 stonking
Needs evaluation
26.04 LTS resolute
Needs evaluation
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
25.04 plucky Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.10 oracular Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Needs evaluation
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal
Needs evaluation
18.04 LTS bionic
Needs evaluation
16.04 LTS xenial
Needs evaluation
14.04 LTS trusty
Needs evaluation

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Notes

mdeslaur

This also affects 2.x

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.6 · Medium

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

References

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