{"cve":"CVE-2009-1904","nvd":{"published":"2009-06-11T21:30:00.217","modified":"2026-06-16T23:08:19.730","status":"Modified","description":"The BigDecimal library in Ruby 1.8.6 before p369 and 1.8.7 before p173 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a string argument that represents a large number, as demonstrated by an attempted conversion to the Float data type.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-189"],"references":["http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=532689","http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273213","http://github.com/NZKoz/bigdecimal-segfault-fix/tree/master","http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-security/msg/fad60751e2b9b4f6?dmode=source","http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Mar/msg00001.html"],"products":["ruby-lang:ruby"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:54:07.895733559+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2009-1904","score":0.12775,"percentile":0.96279,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}