What is CVE-2024-35221?

CVE-2024-35221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rubygems Rubygems.org, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-05-29.

How severe is CVE-2024-35221?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Rubygems Rubygems.org

CVE-2024-35221

Rubygems.org is the Ruby community's gem hosting service. A Gem publisher can cause a Remote DoS when publishing a Gem. This is due to how Ruby reads the Manifest of Gem files when using Gem::Specification.from_yaml. from_yaml makes use of…

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (38.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Rubygems Rubygems.org — versions < 2024-04-12

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)
security-advisories@github.com (x_refsource_MISC)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-35221?: CVE-2024-35221 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Rubygems Rubygems.org, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2024-05-29.
How severe is CVE-2024-35221?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.