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CVE-2016-2336

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 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: yes
• Published: 2017-01-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Type confusion exists in two methods of Ruby's WIN32OLE class, ole_invoke and ole_query_interface. Attacker passing different type of object than this assumed by developers can cause arbitrary code execution.

Affected products

• Ruby: 2.2.2, 2.3.0

References

• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0029/
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0029/

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