Vulnerability in ruby (CVE-2026-46727)
Summary
Vulnerability in ruby (CVE-2026-46727). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. Mitigation: upgrade to 4.0.5 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
An issue was discovered in Ruby 4 before 4.0.5. A race condition leading to a use-after-free in the pthread-based getaddrinfo timeout handler (rb_getaddrinfo in ext/socket/raddrinfo.c) allows a remote attacker who can delay DNS responses near the user-specified timeout to crash a Ruby process that calls Addrinfo.getaddrinfo(..., timeout:) or Socket.tcp(..., resolv_timeout:). Memory-corruption-based exploitation is theoretically possible. The attack could, for example, be carried out through a crafted authoritative DNS server or recursive resolver.
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-46727 has been found in ruby.
Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover. CVSS score: 8.1/10.
What to do: upgrade ruby to 4.0.5 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "ruby CVE-2026-46727" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-46727 (ruby) — CWE-362 / CVSS v3 8.1
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 4.0.5 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-362) exists in ruby.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of ruby.
Severity: High (CVSS 8.1/10). Successful exploitation can lead to full system takeover.
Update to 4.0.5.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'ruby' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'ruby' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
rubyを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade ruby to 4.0.5ステージング環境で 4.0.5 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- BellSoft Alpaquita BELL-CVE-2026-46727
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-46727 jruby
References
- patch cve@mitre.org
- web nvd.nist.gov
- web cve@mitre.org
- web ruby-lang.org
- web github.com