VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2023-22796
A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 1.71%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.71%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.71% probability · 76th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400, CWE-1333
- Affected
- activesupport project/activesupport
- Source
- support@hackerone.com
References
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.