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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-126366 EUVD-2026-124750GHSA-73v3-wf97-vpgj

msgpack-ruby JRuby decoder makes uncapped header-count allocations; a 5-byte message forces multi-GiB OOM

Published Nov 12, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
msgpack msgpack-ruby < 1.8.7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems msgpack < 1.8.7 1.8.7 GHSA-73v3-wf97-vpgj

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