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Fencer Intel
high 7.5

CVE-2014-10077 json

i18n Vulnerable to Denial of Service Attack

published 2018-11-06 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-34hf-g744-jw64 , EUVD-2022-2105

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
3.4%
EPSS 3.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 88%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb in the i18n gem before 0.8.0 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a call in a situation where :some_key is present in keep_keys but not present in the hash.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems i18n 0.8.0
  • i18n_project i18n 0.8.0
  • ruby-i18n Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.7.0-3

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2014-10077

  • ruby-i18n Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 0.6.9-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1~esm1

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2014-10077

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2014-10077 updated cvss 5.3

rubygem-i18n: denial of service in Hash#slice in lib/i18n/core_ext/hash.rb

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.2 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.3 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 rubygem-i18n Red Hat Satellite 6 tfm-rubygem-i18n
    +1 more products
    Red Hat Software Collections rh-ror42-rubygem-i18n, rh-ror50-rubygem-i18n
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Storage 3 rubygem-i18n
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager rubygem-i18n, ruby193-rubygem-i18n
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.6 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.7 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.9 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.10 rubygem-i18n Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 rubygem-i18n
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

3.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 88% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
GitHub 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems i18n
<0.8.0
0.8.0

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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