SUSE update for rubygem-activesupport-5_1

1) Input validation error

EUVDB-ID: #VU71303

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22796

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Active Support in Inflector.underscore. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

Mitigation

Update the affected package rubygem-activesupport-5_1 to the latest version.

Vulnerable software versions

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server: 15-SP1 - 15-SP4

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing: 15-SP1 - 15-SP4

SUSE Enterprise Storage: 6 - 7.1

SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server: 4.0 - 4.3

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability: 15-SP1 - 15-SP4

SUSE Manager Proxy: 4.0 - 4.3

SUSE Manager Server: 4.0 - 4.3

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications: 15-SP1 - 15-SP4

openSUSE Leap: 15.4

ruby2.5-rubygem-activesupport-doc-5_1: before 5.1.4-150000.3.12.1

ruby2.5-rubygem-activesupport-5_1: before 5.1.4-150000.3.12.1

External links

http://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2023/suse-su-20230275-1/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.