Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting rubygem-mysql2 package, versions <0:0.5.4-1.module+el9.1.0+13172+8d1baf64


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY9-RUBYGEMMYSQL2-6577577
  • published6 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 Rocky-Linux:9 rubygem-mysql2 to version 0:0.5.4-1.module+el9.1.0+13172+8d1baf64 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:1576.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-mysql2 package and not the rubygem-mysql2 package as distributed by Rocky-Linux. See How to fix? for Rocky-Linux: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 Base Scores

version 3.1