GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2021/07/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g
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Published
2021-07-12T16:58:33Z
Modified
2024-02-15T05:32:45.392859Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Regular Expression Denial of Service in Addressable templates
Details

Impact

Within the URI template implementation in Addressable, a maliciously crafted template may result in uncontrolled resource consumption, leading to denial of service when matched against a URI. In typical usage, templates would not normally be read from untrusted user input, but nonetheless, no previous security advisory for Addressable has cautioned against doing this. Users of the parsing capabilities in Addressable but not the URI template capabilities are unaffected.

Patches

The vulnerability was introduced in version 2.3.0 (previously yanked) and has been present in all subsequent versions up to, and including, 2.7.0. It is fixed in version 2.8.0.

Workarounds

The vulnerability can be avoided by only creating Template objects from trusted sources that have been validated not to produce catastrophic backtracking.

References

  • https://owasp.org/www-community/attacks/RegularexpressionDenialofService-ReDoS
  • https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html
  • https://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html

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References

Affected packages

RubyGems / addressable

Package

Name
addressable
Purl
pkg:gem/addressable

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.3.0
Fixed
2.8.0

Affected versions

2.*

2.3.2
2.3.3
2.3.4
2.3.5
2.3.6
2.3.7
2.3.8
2.4.0
2.5.0
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.6.0
2.7.0

Database specific

{
    "last_known_affected_version_range": "<= 2.7.0"
}