GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-2m96-52r3-2f3g fugit parse and parse_nat stall on lengthy input

MEDIUM Published 2024-08-19 Modified 2024-08-21 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-43380
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
fugit
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2024-08-19

Affected packages

• RubyGems fugit: < 1.11.1 → fixed in 1.11.1

Description

Impact The fugit "natural" parser, that turns "every wednesday at 5pm" into "0 17 * * 3", accepted any length of input and went on attempting to parse it, not returning promptly, as expected. The parse call could hold the thread with no end in sight. Fugit dependents that do not check (user) input length for plausability are impacted. Patches Problem was reported in #104 and the fix was released in fugit 1.11.1 Workarounds By making sure that `Fugit.parse(s)`, `Fugit.do_parse(s)`, `Fugit.parse_nat(s)`, `Fugit.do_parse_nat(s)`, `Fugit::Nat.parse(s)`, and `Fugit::Nat.do_parse(s)` are not fed strings too long. 1000 chars feels ok, while 10_000 chars makes it stall. In fewer words, making sure those fugit methods are not fed unvetted input strings. References gh-104

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-43380 fugit contains time tools for flor and the floraison group. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References