CVE-2014-6438

Severity

50%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

48%

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.

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 3.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

First reported 7 years ago

2017-09-06 21:29:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-09-11 18:25:00

Affected Software

Ruby-lang Ruby

References

[oss-security] 20150713 Re: Retroactive CVE request for Ruby 1.9.2-p330

Mailing List, VDB Entry

1032874

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry

https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817

Third Party Advisory

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/

Patch, Release Notes, Vendor Advisory

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