CVE-2023-22796 - CVE House
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Status published Unknown CVE-2023-22796

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1...

Vulnerability Description

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. A specially crafted string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

https://github.com/rails/rails
Vulnerable Versions:
6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1

Timeline

Official Publish: February 9th, 2023
Last Modified: November 27th, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

No vector data available

Weaknesses (CWE)