Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-11027
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:45 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"provider": "osv",
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"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202003-09",
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"published_at": "2019-06-10T19:29:00.607+00:00"
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