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.
CVE-2023-5349
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit-prediction score not yet available (the EPSS model rescores nightly; freshly-published CVEs typically appear within 48 hours). GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 3.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(low)
- EPSS
- 47.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 30, 2023
Last Modified
June 17, 2026
References (12)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5349
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247064
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/1401
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S3XMQ2KWPYGT447EKPENGXXHKAQ5NUWF/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5349
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247064
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/issues/1401
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/rmagick/rmagick/pull/1406
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/10/msg00030.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2026/01/msg00003.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/S3XMQ2KWPYGT447EKPENGXXHKAQ5NUWF/
Patch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | ruby-rmagick-doc (4.2.3-2ubuntu0.22.04.1~esm2) @ jammy | 2026-05-23 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
RubyGems(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| rmagick | 1.10.0 ... 5.2.0 (93 versions) | 5.3.0 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
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Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-06-24 06:27 UTCNVD updateCVSS v3 → 3.3 · severity → LOW
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- 2026-05-23 10:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-23 10:02 UTCVendor advisory
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