CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-22796

7.5 HIGH Published 2023-02-09 Modified 2026-10-24 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-02-09
Last modified
2026-10-24
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333, CWE-400

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.

Affected configurations

• activesupport project activesupport (< 6.1.7.1) • activesupport project activesupport (>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.4.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References