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veracodeVeracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:11131
HistoryJan 15, 2019 - 8:57 a.m.

Denial Of Service (DoS) Via CPU Consumption

2019-01-1508:57:26
Veracode Vulnerability Database
sca.analysiscenter.veracode.com
9

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

RubyGems is vulnerable to a denial of service (DoS) attack. It is possible due to a flaw in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb which allows a malicious gem version to cause a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

References

4.3 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P