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CVE-2014-6438 (GCVE-0-2014-6438)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-09-06 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 12:17
VLAI
Summary
The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2014-08-19 00:00
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