Critical severity · published May 24, 2017
CVE-2017-9225
An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5
9.8
CVSS
3.1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in Oniguruma 6.2.0, as used in Oniguruma-mod in Ruby through 2.4.1 and mbstring in PHP through 7.1.5. A stack out-of-bounds write in onigenc_unicode_get_case_fold_codes_by_str() occurs during regular expression compilation. Code point 0xFFFFFFFF is not properly handled in unicode_unfold_key(). A malformed regular expression could result in 4 bytes being written off the end of a stack buffer of expand_case_fold_string() during the call to onigenc_unicode_get_case_fold_codes_by_str(), a typical stack buffer overflow.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)3.1% · higher than 88% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PH
PHP · PHP
through 7.1.5 · source: NVD
ON
Oniguruma · Oniguruma Project
6.2.0 · source: NVD
RU
Ruby · Ruby-lang
through 2.4.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9225
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9225
Patch
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/commit/166a6c3999bf06b4de0ab4ce6b088a468cc4029f
Exploit
https://github.com/kkos/oniguruma/issues/56
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