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CVE-2023-28755

ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in URI

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · March 21, 2023

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in the rubygem URI. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters, which causes an increase in execution time parsing strings to URI objects. This may result in a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation