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VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2023-36617

There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 1.70%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.70%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

CVSS 3.1
5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS
1.70% probability · 76th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-1333
Affected
ruby-lang/uri
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.