Improper Input Validation Affecting rubygems package, versions <0:3.2.33-162.el9_4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.34% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-RUBYGEMS-7882627
  • published3 Sept 2024
  • disclosed21 Mar 2023

Introduced: 21 Mar 2023

CVE-2023-28756  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 rubygems to version 0:3.2.33-162.el9_4 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-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 RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 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