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Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Nov 12, 2026 22:41:38 UTC

CVE-2026-126366

MessagePack for Ruby is an implementation of the MessagePack binary serialization format. Prior to 1.8.7, the Java-platform msgpack gem for JRuby allocated arrays and byte buffers directly from attacker-controlled array32, str32, and bin32 declared sizes before confirming that corresponding elements or bytes were available. A short MessagePack header could therefore trigger a very large allocation or sustained heap growth when an application decoded untrusted input through MessagePack.unpack or MessagePack::Unpacker, potentially exhausting the shared JVM heap. map32 and declared counts at or above 2^31 did not use the affected allocation behavior. This issue is fixed in version 1.8.7.

Base score7.5/ 10
SeverityHighCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes
Base severityHigh
Attack vectorNetworkAV
Attack complexityLowAC
Privileges requiredNonePR
User interactionNoneUI
ScopeUnchangedS
Confidentiality impactNoneC
Integrity impactNoneI
Availability impactHighA
CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Last updatedNov 13, 2026 22:32:11 UTC
PublishedNov 12, 2026 22:41:38 UTC
ReservedNov 10, 2026 21:12:01 UTC