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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-11027

Ruby OpenID (aka ruby-openid) through 2.8.0 has a remotely exploitable flaw. This library is used by Rails web applications to integrate with OpenID Providers. Severity can range from medium to critical, depending on how a web application developer chose to employ the ruby-openid library. Developers who based their OpenID integration heavily on the "example app" provided by the project are at highest risk.

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31 Oct 2026, 10:45 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2019-11027

core-osv · Original source

Published 10 Jun 2019, 19:29 UTC

Ruby OpenID (aka ruby-openid) through 2.8.0 has a remotely exploitable flaw. This library is used by Rails web applications to integrate with OpenID Providers. Severity can range from medium to critical, depending on how a web application developer chose to employ the ruby-openid library. Developers who based their OpenID integration heavily on the "example app" provided by the project are at highest risk.

osv:CVE-2019-11027
Complete source record
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    "summary": "Ruby OpenID (aka ruby-openid) through 2.8.0 has a remotely exploitable flaw. This library is used by Rails web applications to integrate with OpenID Providers. Severity can range from medium to critical, depending on how a web application developer chose to employ the ruby-openid library. Developers who based their OpenID integration heavily on the \"example app\" provided by the project are at highest risk.",
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              "repo": "https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid",
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      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:51:36.501826349Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/10/msg00014.html",
        "https://marc.info/?l=openid-security&m=155154717027534&w=2",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-09",
        "https://github.com/openid/ruby-openid/issues/122"
      ],
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382636,
  "published_at": "2019-06-10T19:29:00.607+00:00"
}