Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rubygem-did_you_mean package, versions <0:1.2.0-112.module+el8.10.0+90367+ae9e8511


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-RUBYGEMDIDYOUMEAN-7536852
  • published18 Jul 2024
  • disclosed29 Jun 2023

Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 rubygem-did_you_mean to version 0:1.2.0-112.module+el8.10.0+90367+ae9e8511 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2024-4499.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-did_you_mean package and not the rubygem-did_you_mean package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle: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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