SB2023030334 - SUSE update for rubygem-activesupport-4_2 



SB2023030334 - SUSE update for rubygem-activesupport-4_2

Published: March 3, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023030334
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22796)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Active Support in Inflector.underscore. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a regular expression based denial of service (ReDoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.