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Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package rubygem-rake  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-RUBYGEMRAKE-1484324
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed1 Oct 2019
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Introduced: 1 Oct 2019

CVE-2019-16201  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-rake package and not the rubygem-rake package as distributed by RHEL.

WEBrick::HTTPAuth::DigestAuth in Ruby through 2.4.7, 2.5.x through 2.5.6, and 2.6.x through 2.6.4 has a regular expression Denial of Service cause by looping/backtracking. A victim must expose a WEBrick server that uses DigestAuth to the Internet or a untrusted network.