Incorrect Regular Expression in globalid - CVE-2023-22799
Published: February 9, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU72084
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22799
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: rubygems.org
Affected software:
globalid
globalid
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect parsing of model name. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and consume excessive CPU resources, resulting in regular expression denial of service.
How to mitigate CVE-2023-22799
Install updates from vendor's website.