CVE-2023-22796

rubygem-activesupport: Regular Expression Denial of Service

Published Feb 9, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 1.7% KEV · Not listed
Description
A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. A specially crafted string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5372-1 rails security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j6gc-792m-qgm2 ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support's underscore
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
hackerone
Published
Updated
Nov 27, 2024, 3:16 PM
Reserved
Jan 6, 2023, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 9, 2023, 8:15 PM
Modified
Oct 24, 2026, 1:10 PM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jan 20, 2023, 12:00 AM