GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-qg54-694p-wgpp Regular expression denial of service vulnerability (ReDoS) in date
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-41817
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- date
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
- Reviewed
- 2021-11-16
Affected packages
• RubyGems date: >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.1 → fixed in 3.2.1
• RubyGems date: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.2 → fixed in 3.1.2
• RubyGems date: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.2 → fixed in 3.0.2
• RubyGems date: < 2.0.1 → fixed in 2.0.1
Description
Date’s parsing methods including Date.parse are using Regexps internally, some of which are vulnerable against regular expression denial of service. Applications and libraries that apply such methods to untrusted input may be affected.
The fix limits the input length up to 128 bytes by default instead of changing the regexps. This is because Date gem uses many Regexps and it is possible that there are still undiscovered vulnerable Regexps. For compatibility, it is allowed to remove the limitation by explicitly passing limit keywords as nil like Date.parse(str, limit: nil), but note that it may take a long time to parse.
Please update the date gem to version 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, and 2.0.1, or later. You can use gem update date to update it. If you are using bundler, please add gem "date", ">= 3.2.1" to your Gemfile. If you import `date` from the standard library rather than as a gem you should update your Ruby install to `3.0.3`, `2.7.5`, `2.6.9` or later.
Users unable to upgrade may consider using `Date.strptime` instead with a predefined date format
```ruby
Date.strptime('2001-02-20', '%Y-%m-%d')
```
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-41817 Date.parse in the date gem through 3.2.0 for Ruby allows ReDoS (regular expression Denial of Service) via a long string. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41817 advisory
- https://github.com/ruby/date/commit/3959accef8da5c128f8a8e2fd54e932a4fb253b0 web
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1254844 web
- https://github.com/ruby/date package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/date/CVE-2021-41817.yml web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/IUXQCH6FRKANCVZO2Q7D2SQX33FP3KWN web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UTOJGS5IEFDK3UOO7IY4OTTFGHGLSWZF web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/IUXQCH6FRKANCVZO2Q7D2SQX33FP3KWN web
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/UTOJGS5IEFDK3UOO7IY4OTTFGHGLSWZF web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-27 web
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/11/15/date-parsing-method-regexp-dos-cve-2021-41817 web