vulnerability

Ruby on Rails: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2021-22880)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Feb 11, 2021
Added
Feb 19, 2021
Modified
Apr 7, 2026

Description

The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. Carefully crafted input can cause the input validation in the `money` type of the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record to spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This only impacts Rails applications that are using PostgreSQL along with money type columns that take user input.

Solutions

ruby-on-rails-upgrade-5_2_4_5ruby-on-rails-upgrade-6_0_3_5ruby-on-rails-upgrade-6_1_2_1
Title
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