Security Advisory

CVE-2023-22796

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2023-02-09 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-11-27 15:16:00
Assigner hackerone
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.