CVEvulnerability

CVE-2013-4287

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2013-10-17 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2013-10-17
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-310

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 6.0 • rubygems rubygems (<= 1.8.23) • rubygems rubygems 1.8.0 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.1 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.2 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.3 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.4 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.5 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.6 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.7 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.8 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.9 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.10 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.11 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.12 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.13 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.14 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.15 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.16 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.17 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.18 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.19 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.20 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.21 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.22 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.24 • rubygems rubygems 1.8.25 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.0 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.1 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.2 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.3 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.4 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.5 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.6 • rubygems rubygems 2.0.7 • rubygems rubygems 2.1.0 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.1 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.2 • ruby-lang ruby 1.9.3 • ruby-lang ruby 2.0 • ruby-lang ruby 2.0.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References