Vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Uri

CVE-2023-28755

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component through 0.12.0 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects. The fixed versions are 0.12.1, 0.11.1, 0.10.2 and 0.10.0.1.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.026 (84.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-28755?
CVE-2023-28755 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Uri, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2023-03-31.
How severe is CVE-2023-28755?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-28755 known to be exploited?
4 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.