Vulnerability in Rubygems

CVE-2013-4287

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.

Vulnerability class: POODLE (CVE-2014-3566)

EPSS: 0.033 (87.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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