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CVE-2021-41816

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2022-02-06 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

CGI.escape_html in Ruby before 2.7.5 and 3.x before 3.0.3 has an integer overflow and resultant buffer overflow via a long string on platforms (such as Windows) where size_t and long have different numbers of bytes. This also affects the CGI gem before 0.3.1 for Ruby.

Affected Platforms

Ruby-Lang RubyFedoraproject FedoraRuby-Lang Cgi

Weakness Type

CWE-190

References