vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2023-22796: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 9, 2023
Added
Aug 22, 2024
Modified
Dec 5, 2025

Description

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Active Support <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1. A specially crafted string passed to the underscore method can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-ruby-activesupport
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