CVE-2014-10077

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-11-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
i18n: before 0.8.0 — fixed in 0.8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: i18n 0.8.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/pull/182/files
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/pull/289
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/releases/tag/v0.8.0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00021.html
https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/pull/182/files
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/pull/289
https://github.com/svenfuchs/i18n/releases/tag/v0.8.0
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/11/msg00021.html

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