CVE-2014-6438

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Sep 6, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Sep 16, 2014

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.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

1032874vdb-entry
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/
https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817
[oss-security] 20150713 Re: Retroactive CVE request for Ruby 1.9.2-p330mailing-list

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