Vulnerabilities > CVE-2023-22796 - Unspecified vulnerability in Activesupport Project Activesupport
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
References
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22796-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-active-supports-underscore/82116
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0009/
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372