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CVE-2018-1000201

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2018-06-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-426

Description

ruby-ffi version 1.9.23 and earlier has a DLL loading issue which can be hijacked on Windows OS, when a Symbol is used as DLL name instead of a String This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in v1.9.24 and later.

Affected products

• Ruby-Ffi Project Ruby-Ffi: through 1.9.23

References

• https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/09e0c6076466b4383da7fa4e13f714311109945a
• https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/e0fe486df0e117ed67b0282b6ada04b7214ca05c
• https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/09e0c6076466b4383da7fa4e13f714311109945a
• https://github.com/ffi/ffi/commit/e0fe486df0e117ed67b0282b6ada04b7214ca05c

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