Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby:2.5/rubygem-net-telnet package, versions <0:0.1.1-112.module_el8.10.0+3871+342e2c2f


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on AlmaLinux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ALMALINUX8-RUBY-7541073
  • published18 Jul 2024
  • disclosed1 Apr 2024

Introduced: 1 Apr 2024

CVE-2023-36617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade AlmaLinux:8 ruby:2.5/rubygem-net-telnet to version 0:0.1.1-112.module_el8.10.0+3871+342e2c2f or higher.
This issue was patched in ALSA-2024:4499.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby:2.5/rubygem-net-telnet package and not the ruby:2.5/rubygem-net-telnet package as distributed by AlmaLinux. See How to fix? for AlmaLinux:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

CVSS Scores

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