Incorrect Regular Expression Affecting ruby3.2 package, versions <0:3.2.2-180.amzn2023.0.5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.13% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2023-RUBY32-8688773
  • published6 Feb 2025
  • disclosed29 Jun 2023

Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-36617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-185  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2023 ruby3.2 to version 0:3.2.2-180.amzn2023.0.5 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2023-2025-839.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby3.2 package and not the ruby3.2 package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2023 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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