Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rubygem-abrt package, versions <0:0.4.0-1.module+el8.5.0+668+665814fa


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-RUBYGEMABRT-5878249
  • published1 Sept 2023
  • 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 Rocky-Linux:8 rubygem-abrt to version 0:0.4.0-1.module+el8.5.0+668+665814fa or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:1431.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-abrt package and not the rubygem-abrt package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux:8 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