CVE-2008-3657

28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.

ssvc Attendepss 14%

from disclosure to weapon0 days

Published on NVDAug 13

1st PoCAug 11

exploitation probability

14%top 4% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

The dl module in Ruby 1.8.5 and earlier, 1.8.6 through 1.8.6-p286, 1.8.7 through 1.8.7-p71, and 1.9 through r18423 does not check "taintness" of inputs, which allows context-dependent attackers to bypass safe levels and execute dangerous functions by accessing a library using DL.dlopen.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/32223

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