CVE-2014-6438

HIGH 7.5CVE-2014-6438 · Published 06/09/2017 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2014-6438 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting ruby (ruby-lang).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 4.1%, higher than 90.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
ruby ruby-lang	`≤ 1.9.2`	No fix yet

Description

The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string.

References

openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/6 · Mailing List
securitytracker.com/id/1032874 · Third Party Advisory
ruby/www.ruby-lang.org · Third Party Advisory
ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released · Patch

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

ruby

ruby-lang

≤ 1.9.2

No fix yet

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