Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby2.5-devel package, versions <2.5.9-150000.4.29.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.38% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES154-RUBY25DEVEL-6033972
  • published 25 Oct 2023
  • disclosed 24 Oct 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.4 ruby2.5-devel to version 2.5.9-150000.4.29.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5-devel package and not the ruby2.5-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.4 relevant fixed versions and status.

Date.parse in the date gem through 3.2.0 for Ruby allows ReDoS (regular expression Denial of Service) via a long string. The fixed versions are 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, and 2.0.1.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    High
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SUSE

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

7.5 high