CVE-2022-28739 (GCVE-0-2022-28739)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-05-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 16:09
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
There is a buffer over-read in Ruby before 2.6.10, 2.7.x before 2.7.6, 3.x before 3.0.4, and 3.1.x before 3.1.2. It occurs in String-to-Float conversion, including Kernel#Float and String#to_f.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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