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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2023-22796

High
7.5/10

Summary

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in activesupport versions through 5.2.8.1, 6.0.0.beta1 through 6.1.7, and 7.0.0.alpha1 through 7.0.4. A specially crafted string passed to the "underscore" method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of Catastrophic Backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published