#VU99671 Inefficient regular expression complexity in actionpack - CVE-2024-47887
Published: November 4, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU99671
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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-2024-47887
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
actionpack
actionpack
Software vendor:
Ruby
Ruby
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-vfg9-r3fq-jvx4
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/56b2fc3302836405b496e196a8d5fc0195e55049
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7c1398854d51f9bb193fb79f226647351133d08a
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8e057db25bff1dc7a98e9ae72e0083825b9ac545
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f4dc83d8926509d0958ec21fcdbc2e7df3d32ce2