CVE-2018-1000074: Rubygems

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in owner command that can result in code execution. This attack appear to be exploitable via victim must run the `gem owner` command on a gem with a specially crafted YAML file. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 2.7.6.

Affected products

• Rubygems Rubygems: up to and including 2.2.9; up to and including 2.3.6; up to and including 2.4.3; up to and including 2.5.0

Published 2018-03-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.