🛡️ CVE-2021-41819 on Debian — ruby2.7

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

CGI::Cookie.parse in Ruby through 2.6.8 mishandles security prefixes in cookie names. This also affects the CGI gem through 0.3.0 for Ruby.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2021-41819 as tracked by Debian, for the package ruby2.7. The fix is available in version 2.7.4-1+deb11u1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity high, availability none.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-41819 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ruby2.7 (fixed in 2.7.4-1+deb11u1)

Timeline and source

Published on 1 January 2022 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2021-41819 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-01-01
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ruby2.7 2.7.4-1+deb11u1

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