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CVE-2014-9490

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-01-20 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The numtok function in lib/raven/okjson.rb in the raven-ruby gem before 0.12.2 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large exponent value in a scientific number.

Affected products

• getsentry Raven-Ruby: through 0.12.1

References

• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/26
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99687
• https://github.com/getsentry/raven-ruby/commit/477ee93a3f735be33bc1e726820654cdf6e22d8f
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/getsentry/Cz5bih0ZY1U
• http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2015/q1/26
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99687
• https://github.com/getsentry/raven-ruby/commit/477ee93a3f735be33bc1e726820654cdf6e22d8f
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/getsentry/Cz5bih0ZY1U

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