Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby2.5 package, versions <2.5.1-1ubuntu1.16+esm1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-RUBY25-5752347
  • published4 Jul 2023
  • disclosed29 Jun 2023

Introduced: 29 Jun 2023

CVE-2023-36617  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:18.04 ruby2.5 to version 2.5.1-1ubuntu1.16+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby2.5 package and not the ruby2.5 package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:18.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1