CVE-2014-6438 — Improper Input Validation in Ruby

CWE-399CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 21.68%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Ruby-lang Ruby
Timeline
PublishedSep 6
Latest updateMay 17

Description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDruby-lang/ruby1.9.2

Patches

Patch: www.ruby-lang.org ↗Patch: www.ruby-lang.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-2j3h-55rq-rj48: The URI↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2014-6438: The URI↗2017-09-06
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
ruby: Unsafe parsing of long strings via decode_www_form_component method↗2014-08-19
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2014-6438 ruby: Unsafe parsing of long strings via decode_www_form_component method↗2017-09-12
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