PT-2015-4240 · Ruby · Raven-Ruby

David Cramer · Published 2015-01-20 · Updated 2018-08-13 · CVE-2014-9490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions raven-ruby gem versions prior to 0.12.2

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large exponent value in a scientific number, specifically targeting the numtok function in lib/raven/okjson.rb.

Recommendations For versions prior to 0.12.2, update to version 0.12.2 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting input to the numtok function to prevent large exponent values in scientific numbers.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-9490

GHSA-C9C5-9FPR-M882

Affected Products

Raven-Ruby

References · 9

• 🔥 https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sentry-raven/CVE-2014-9490.yml · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9490 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-c9c5-9fpr-m882 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/getsentry/raven-ruby/commit/477ee93a3f735be33bc1e726820654cdf6e22d8f · Note
• https://github.com/getsentry/raven-ruby · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99687 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/getsentry/Cz5bih0ZY1U · Note
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/26 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/getsentry/Cz5bih0ZY1U · Note