CVE-2023-36617A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific…
- 5.3MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 22% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.
Timeline
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- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium5.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 22% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsuriGHSA-hww2-5g85-429m (opens in a new tab)
References
References6
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-31cac8b8ec (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2024-48bdd3abbf (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00000.html (opens in a new tab)
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/27LUWREIFTP3MQAW7QE4PJM4DPAQJWXF/ (opens in a new tab)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-1827 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-hww2-5g85-429m (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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