CVE-2023-36617
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CVE-2023-36617 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.3/10 on the CVSS scale. 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. EPSS estimates a 1.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Metrics
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Weakness Enumeration
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ruby-Lang | Uri | < 0.10.3 |
| Ruby-Lang | Uri | >= 0.11.0, < 0.12.2 |
References
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
Timeline
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- Status
- Modified
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