Description
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.
Published: 2017-09-06
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.1% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-275-1 ruby1.9.1 security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2014-6318 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.
History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.01151}

epss

{'score': 0.01078}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T12:17:23.859Z

Reserved: 2014-09-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-6438

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-06T21:29:00.253

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2014-6438

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-6438 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses