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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2023-36617

Medium
5.3/10

Summary

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component in version 0.10.0, 0.10.0.1, 0.10.0.2, 0.10.1, 0.10.2, 0.11.0, 0.11.1, 0.12.0, and 0.12.1. 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".

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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  • LOW

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