vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2014-6438: ruby: Unsafe parsing of long strings via decode_www_form_component method

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Sep 6, 2017
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

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.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
Title
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