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CVE-2023-22796

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2023-02-09 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Activesupport Project Activesupport

Weakness Type

CWE-400, CWE-1333

References