CVE-2011-3009

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-310 Cryptographic Issues

Publication date:

05/08/2011

Last modified:

11/04/2025

Description

Ruby before 1.8.6-p114 does not reset the random seed upon forking, which makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to predict the values of random numbers by leveraging knowledge of the number sequence obtained in a different child process, a related issue to CVE-2003-0900.

Impact

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0

5.00

Severity 2.0

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby::p111::::::*		1.8.6 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.6:p110::::::
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:1.8.6:p36::::::

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CVE-2011-3009

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools