CVE-2018-1000075

RubyGems version Ruby 2.2 series: 2.2.9 and earlier, Ruby 2.3 series: 2.3.6 and earlier, Ruby 2.4 series: 2.4.3 and earlier, Ruby 2.5 series: 2.5.0 and earlier, prior to trunk revision 62422 contains a infinite loop caused by negative size vulnerability in ruby gem package tar header that can result in a negative size could cause an infinite loop.. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Published: 2018-03-13 Last update: 2024-11-21 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2018-1000075 is rated Moderate Risk (58.9/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 1.76%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2018-1000075

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-01-09 1.63% 1.76% +0.13%
2 2025-11-21 4.87% 1.63% -3.24%
3 2025-11-18 4.87%

Full EPSS history (18 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2018-1000075

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 3.0 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:N)
Nobody has to click “OK” or open a trap file; it can work without a victim helping.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
3.9 3.6 [email protected]
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2018-1000075

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2018-1000075

GHSA-74pv-v9gh-h25p · Severity: high · Ecosystem: rubygems — RubyGems Infinite Loop vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2018-1000075

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2018-1000075 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 2 source packages (jruby, rubygems), 9 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 9. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-1000075
redhat low https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000075
suse low CVE-2018-1000075 severity low: SUSE including 301 source package names (2.17-17.3:libruby2_5-2_5-2.5.5-4.3.1, 2.17-17.3:ruby2.5-2.5.5-4.3.1, …), 1042 product×package rows across 263 product lines (Container bci/ruby, Container suse/rmt-server, … (263 product lines)): Fixed 842, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 43. https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1000075/
ubuntu medium CVE-2018-1000075 medium priority: Ubuntu including 6 source packages (jruby, ruby1.9.1, ruby2.0, ruby2.1, ruby2.3, ruby2.5), 118 status rows across 20 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, kinetic, lunar, mantic, noble, oracular, plucky, questing, trusty, upstream, xenial): DNE 87, not-affected 12, released 9, needs-triage 8, ignored 2. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-1000075

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2018-1000075

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
rubygems rubygems <= 2.2.9 cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubygems rubygems <= 2.3.6 cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubygems rubygems <= 2.4.3 cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
rubygems rubygems <= 2.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:rubygems:rubygems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
debian debian_linux 7.0 cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2018-1000075

URL Tags
http://blog.rubygems.org/2018/02/15/2.7.6-released.html Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00036.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3729
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3730
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3731
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2028
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0542
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0591
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0663
https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/92e98bf8f810bd812f919120d4832df51bc25d83 Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00000.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00001.html Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/04/msg00023.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00012.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/05/msg00028.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3621-1/
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4219
https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4259
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