CVE-2023-36617

Published: 29 June 2023

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

Notes

Author	Note
tyhicks	ruby{1.9.1,2.0,2.3} and jruby ship an embedded rubygems.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
jruby Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Needs triage
	focal	Needs triage
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	mantic	Needs triage
	trusty	Needs triage
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Needs triage
ruby1.9.1 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby2.0 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby2.3 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Released (2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm8) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
ruby2.5 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (2.5.1-1ubuntu1.16+esm1) Available with Ubuntu Pro or Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only)
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby2.7 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Released (2.7.0-5ubuntu1.12)
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Does not exist
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby3.0 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Released (3.0.2-7ubuntu2.4)
	kinetic	Released (3.0.4-7ubuntu0.2)
	lunar	Does not exist
	mantic	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
ruby3.1 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Does not exist
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Does not exist
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Released (3.1.2-6ubuntu0.23.04.2)
	mantic	Released (3.1.2-7ubuntu2)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Does not exist
rubygems Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Ignored (end of standard support)
	focal	Does not exist
	jammy	Needs triage
	kinetic	Ignored (end of life, was needs-triage)
	lunar	Ignored (end of life, was needed)
	mantic	Needed
	trusty	Ignored (end of standard support)
	upstream	Needs triage
	xenial	Ignored (end of standard support)
	Patches: upstream: https://github.com/rubygems/rubygems/commit/c1dc700861e50ffbce58d5a41d3a4cdf064321c7

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.3
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

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