cve-2023-22796
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-02-09 00:00
Modified
2024-11-27 15:16
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
support@hackerone.comhttps://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116Patch, Vendor Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
support@hackerone.comhttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
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