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.
Published: 2023-02-09
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 1.5% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-5372-1 rails security update
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-j6gc-792m-qgm2 ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in Active Support's underscore
History

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: hackerone

Published:

Updated: 2024-11-27T15:16:00.509Z

Reserved: 2023-01-06T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2023-22796

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T10:20:31.054Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-09T20:15:11.487

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:45:26.560

Link: CVE-2023-22796

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-01-20T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-22796 - Bugzilla

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