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CVE-2023-22796
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2023-02-09T20:15:11.487 · Last modified 2026-06-17T05:36:11.827

Summary

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.

Affected products

activesupport_project — activesupport

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References

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