CVE-2013-4287

Severity

43%

Complexity

86%

Confidentiality

48%

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, 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.

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, 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.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.3. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-10-17 23:55:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-04-22 17:48:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0

6.0

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.0

1.8.0

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.1

1.8.1

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.2

1.8.2

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.3

1.8.3

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.4

1.8.4

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.5

1.8.5

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.6

1.8.6

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.7

1.8.7

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.8

1.8.8

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.9

1.8.9

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.10

1.8.10

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.11

1.8.11

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.12

1.8.12

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.13

1.8.13

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.14

1.8.14

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.15

1.8.15

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.16

1.8.16

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.17

1.8.17

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.18

1.8.18

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.19

1.8.19

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.20

1.8.20

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.21

1.8.21

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.22

1.8.22

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.24

1.8.24

RubyGems RubyGems 1.8.25

1.8.25

RubyGems 2.0.1

2.0.1

RubyGems 2.0.2

2.0.2

RubyGems 2.0.3

2.0.3

RubyGems 2.0.4

2.0.4

RubyGems 2.0.5

2.0.5

RubyGems 2.0.6

2.0.6

RubyGems 2.0.7

2.0.7

RubyGems 2.1.0 Release Candidate 1

2.1.0

RubyGems 2.1.0 Release Candidate 2

2.1.0

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9

1.9

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.1

1.9.1

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.2

1.9.2

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p0

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p125

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p194

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p286

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p383

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p385

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p392

1.9.3

ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p426

1.9.3

Ruby-lang Ruby 1.9.3-p429

1.9.3

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0

2.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-p0

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-p195

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-p247

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0-preview2

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc1

2.0.0

Ruby-lang Ruby 2.0.0 rc2

2.0.0

References

http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/09/CVE-2013-4287.html

Patch, Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2013:1427

Vendor Advisory

RHSA-2013:1441

RHSA-2013:1523

RHSA-2013:1852

RHSA-2014:0207

55381

[oss-security] 20130909 CVE-2013-4287 Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in RubyGems 2.0.7 and older

https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4287

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