Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-28739

High

Published: 09 May 2022

Published
09 May 2022
Modified
04 November 2025
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0033 56.5th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-28739 is a high-severity Out-of-bounds Read (CWE-125) vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Ruby. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 43.5% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

ruby-lang
ruby
≤ 2.6.10 · 2.7.0 — 2.7.6 · 3.0.0 — 3.0.4
debian
debian linux
10.0, 11.0, 9.0
apple
macos
11.0 — 11.7.1 · 12.0 — 12.6.1

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References