CVE-2026-46727CWE-362

An issue was discovered in Ruby 4 before 4.0.5

High · published May 22, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.1
EPSS
0%
Percentile
41.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.1 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00488 · 41.0th percentile
Weakness
CWE-362 · Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
Published
2026-05-22T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 22 MAY 00:00Z
    An issue was discovered in Ruby 4 before 4.0.5
    cvelistv5