CVE-2017-16516
HIGH 7.5EPSS 3.8%
In the yajl-ruby gem 1.3.0 for Ruby, when a crafted JSON file is supplied to Yajl::Parser.new.parse, the whole ruby process crashes with a SIGABRT in the yajl_string_decode function in yajl_encode.c. This results in the whole ruby process terminating and potentially a denial of service.
- CVSS v3.1 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P - EPSS
- 3.80% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 90th percentile
- Published
- 2017-11-03
- Updated
- 2024-08-05
Proof-of-concept exploits (1)
- brianmario/yajl-ruby/issues/1761489★ · 2025-12-27
Security advisories
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/11/msg00010.html
- https://rubygems.org/gems/yajl-ruby
- advisories/GHSA-wwh7-4jw9-33x6