Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting ruby-3.1 package, versions <3.1.4-r0


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Snyk's Security Team recommends NVD's CVSS assessment

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-WOLFILATEST-RUBY31-5847378
  • published 21 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 31 Mar 2023

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi ruby-3.1 to version 3.1.4-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-3.1 package and not the ruby-3.1 package as distributed by Wolfi. See How to fix? for Wolfi 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.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • 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)
    Low
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SUSE

5.3 medium
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Red Hat

5.3 medium