RubyGems Regular Expression Denial of Service

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::ANCHORED_VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.2, 1.8.24 through 1.8.26, 2.0.x before 2.0.10, and 2.1.x before 2.1.5, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression. NOTE: this issue is due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2013-4287.

Basic information

Type
reviewed
Severity
medium
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Published (advisory)
2022-05-17 00:16:50 UTC
Updated
2023-08-16 09:21:12 UTC
GitHub reviewed
2023-03-08 19:54:54 UTC
NVD published
2013-10-17

EPSS Score

Score Percentile
0.59% 68.52%

CVSS Scores

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Identifiers

Affected packages (4)

Vulnerable version ranges and first patched releases as published by GitHub.

Ecosystem Package Vulnerable range First patched Vulnerable functions
rubygems rubygems-update < 1.8.23.2 1.8.23.2
rubygems rubygems-update >= 1.8.24, < 1.8.27 1.8.27
rubygems rubygems-update >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.10 2.0.10
rubygems rubygems-update >= 2.1.0, < 2.1.5 2.1.5

References

cvelogic Threat Intelligence