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critical 9.8

CVE-2016-2337 json

Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method.

published 2017-01-06 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-3421

cvss
9.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.2%
EPSS 6.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Type confusion exists in _cancel_eval Ruby's TclTkIp class method. Attacker passing different type of object than String as "retval" argument can cause arbitrary code execution.

Patch / fix

  • ruby2.0 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 2.0.0.484-1ubuntu2.4
  • ruby1.9.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 1.9.3.484-2ubuntu1.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-2337

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-2016-2337 updated cvss 7.0

ruby: TclTkIp ip_cancel_eval type confusion vulnerability

  • Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine 5 ruby-200-ruby, rh-ruby22-ruby Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ruby Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ruby, ruby-ri, ruby-irb, ruby-libs, ruby-rdoc, ruby-tcltk Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 ruby, ruby-irb, rubygems, ruby-libs, ruby-tcltk, rubygem-json, +6 more Red Hat Software Collections ruby200-ruby, rh-ruby22-ruby, rh-ruby23-ruby, ruby200-ruby-irb, ruby200-rubygems, ruby200-ruby-libs, +36 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

6.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • talosintelligence.com http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0031/ referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 9.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected products

  • Ruby Ruby
  • Tcl Tcl/Tk

References

Sources

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