Resource Management Errors Affecting ruby package, versions [,1.9.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.44% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RUBY-2370181
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 Sept 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 Sep 2017

CVE-2014-6438  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-399  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ruby to version 1.9.2.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Resource Management Errors. The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string.

CVSS Scores

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