Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rubygem-bson-doc package, versions <0:4.8.1-1.module+el8.4.0+20239+cbf59dc8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-RUBYGEMBSONDOC-5768362
  • published9 Jul 2023
  • disclosed31 Mar 2023

Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28756  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 rubygem-bson-doc to version 0:4.8.1-1.module+el8.4.0+20239+cbf59dc8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2023-3821.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-bson-doc package and not the rubygem-bson-doc package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1