CVE-2026-79590

unknown

Assigned by CNA: mitre

Published 2026-09-10 · Modified 2026-09-10

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

A NULL pointer dereference vulnerability exists in the Prism parser component of mruby 4.0.0. An attacker can provide a specially crafted Ruby source file that triggers the parser to pass a NULL pointer to nonnull string handling functions, resulting in undefined behavior and application crash.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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