CVE-2026-54905 (GCVE-0-2026-54905)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-24 15:42 – Updated: 2026-06-24 16:41
VLAI
Title
concurrent-ruby: `ReentrantReadWriteLock` read-count overflow grants a write lock without exclusivity
Summary
concurrent-ruby is a modern concurrency tools for Ruby. Prior to 1.3.7, Concurrent::ReentrantReadWriteLock can incorrectly grant a write lock after one thread acquires the read lock 32,768 times. The lock stores a thread's local read and write hold counts in one integer. The low 15 bits are used for the read hold count, and bit 15 is used as WRITE_LOCK_HELD. After 32,768 reentrant read acquisitions, the local read count crosses into the write-lock bit. try_write_lock then treats the thread as already holding a write lock and returns true without setting the global RUNNING_WRITER bit. This breaks the core mutual-exclusion guarantee: the caller is told it has a write lock, but other threads can still hold or acquire read locks at the same time. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.3.7.
Severity
SSVC
Exploitation: poc
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-128 - Wrap-around Error
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/ruby-concurrency/concurrent-ru… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ruby-concurrency | concurrent-ruby |
Affected:
< 1.3.7
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