In short
- CVE-2023-28756 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability affecting time, ruby (ruby-lang), time (ruby-lang).
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.4% of all vulnerabilities.
- Fix: update to 0.2.2, 0.1.1 or later.
| Package | Affected versions | Patched versions |
|---|
| time RubyGems | ≥ 0.2.0, < 0.2.2< 0.1.1
| 0.2.20.1.1
|
| ruby | ≤ 2.7.7
| No fix yet |
| time | = 0.1.0= 0.2.1
| No fix yet |
Description
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.
NVD description
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.
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