Connect your agent
AdvisoriesCriticalCheck your lockfilePluginHow it worksPricing Connect your agent

Advisory record · GHSA-74pv-v9gh-h25p

RubyGems Infinite Loop vulnerability

CVSS 7.5 HighEPSS 0.047 · 91st percentile

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 13 May 2022, 01:48 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

PackageEcosystemAffectedFixed in
rubygems-updateRubyGems<2.7.62.7.6
org.jruby:jruby-stdlibMaven<9.1.16.09.1.16.0
Identifiers
GHSA-74pv-v9gh-h25p · CVE-2018-1000075
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-835
Tags
Published
13 May 2022
Updated
13 Mar 2024

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

The rubygems-update package before 2.7.6 and the org.jruby:jruby-stdlib package before 9.1.16.0 contain an infinite loop triggered by a negative size value in a gem package tar header. The source gives few details on how an attacker would supply that header, but the flaw can cause processing to hang. Upgrade rubygems-update to 2.7.6 and jruby-stdlib to 9.1.16.0.

Written 8 Nov 2026.

Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our analysis of this Advisory yet. Once a person has reviewed it, this page will say what’s vulnerable, what has to be true for your app to be affected, and how to check.

Severity and exploitation

ScoreRatingCVSSVectorSource
7.5 High 3.0 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H GitHub Advisory Database
  • CISA KEV Not listed.
  • EPSS 0.047, the 91st percentile, on 8 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

  1. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC First seen by agentprime
  2. 31 Oct 2026, 15:13 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

Facts on this page come from the GitHub Advisory Database (CC-BY 4.0), OSV and the other sources listed, as published. We don’t reproduce full advisory descriptions, which can contain exploit code.