Vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Uri
CVE-2023-36617
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.
Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)
EPSS: 0.017 (74.8th 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
- Ruby-lang Uri
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- cve@mitre.org (Mitigation, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory)
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-36617?
- CVE-2023-36617 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Ruby-Lang Uri, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2023-06-29.
- How severe is CVE-2023-36617?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-36617 known to be exploited?
- 3 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.