CVE-2023-22796 (GCVE-0-2023-22796)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-02-09 00:00 – Updated: 2024-11-27 15:16
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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.
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CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
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n/a https://github.com/rails/rails Affected: 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1
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