Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rubygems package, versions <0:3.2.33-162.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE9-RUBYGEMS-6531221
  • published4 Apr 2024
  • disclosed31 Mar 2023

Introduced: 31 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:9 rubygems to version 0:3.2.33-162.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2024-3838.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygems package and not the rubygems package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1.

References

CVSS Scores

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