Improper Input Validation Affecting ruby-irb package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.39% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYIRB-5408125
  • published4 Apr 2023
  • disclosed21 Mar 2023

Introduced: 21 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28755  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 ruby-irb.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-irb package and not the ruby-irb package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 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

version 3.1