Security Advisory

CVE-2014-6438

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-09-06 21:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 12:17:23
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.