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DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22796
DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22796
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
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.
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Debian:11 | rails | 0, 0, 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2 |
| Debian:12 | rails | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:14 | rails | 0, 0, 0 |
| Debian:13 | rails | 0, 0, 0 |
Exploit Intelligence
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
- .bundler-audit.yml (github-poc)
Timeline
- Feb 9, 2023 CVE Published
- Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated