CVE-2023-5349 — A memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick, an interface between Ruby and Image

A memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick, an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick. This issue can lead to a denial of service (DOS) by memory exhaustion.

01What is this vulnerability?

A memory leak flaw was found in ruby-magick, an interface between Ruby and ImageMagick. This issue can lead to a denial of service (DOS) by memory exhaustion.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / rmagick	unspecified
Red Hat	Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2	unspecified
Fedora	Fedora	unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-10-30T20:27:59.972Z
• Last modified: 2026-01-05T18:05:08.319Z

09References

• access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5349
• bugzilla.redhat.com — https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247064
• github.com — https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/1401
• github.com — https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406
• lists.fedoraproject.org — https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]…