CVE-2023-22796
Published Feb 9, 2023
Last updated 9 months ago
Overview
- Description
- A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. 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.
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 7.5
- Impact score
- 3.6
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity
- HIGH
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:activesupport_project:activesupport:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "989A015C-DF4F-4BCF-8637-8CF3094447A3",
"versionEndExcluding": "6.1.7.1"
},
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:activesupport_project:activesupport:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "EB170255-D891-41DD-A250-C86AF089E5DF",
"versionEndExcluding": "7.0.4.1",
"versionStartIncluding": "7.0.0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
]
}
]