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HistoryJan 10, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

RedCloth: ReDoS Vulnerability

2024-01-1000:00:00
Gentoo Foundation
security.gentoo.org
6
textile
ruby
cve
redos
sanitize_html
vulnerability
upgrade

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

46.7%

Background

RedCloth is a module for using Textile in Ruby

Description

A vulnerability has been discovered in RedCloth. Please review the CVE identifier referenced below for details.

Impact

RedCloth is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service (“ReDoS”) attack via the sanitize_html function.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All RedCloth users should upgrade to the latest version:

 # emerge --sync
 # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-ruby/redcloth-4.3.2-r5"
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
Gentooanyalldev-ruby/redcloth< 4.3.2-r5UNKNOWN

CVSS3

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

AI Score

7.2

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

46.7%