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ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in GlobalID

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jan 18, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Sep 18, 2023

Package

bundler globalid (RubyGems)

Affected versions

>= 0.2.1, < 1.0.1

Patched versions

1.0.1

Description

There is a ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in the GlobalID gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-22799.

Versions Affected: >= 0.2.1 Not affected: NOTAFFECTED Fixed Versions: 1.0.1
Impact

There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the model name parsing section of the GlobalID gem. Carefully crafted input can cause the regular expression engine to take an unexpected amount of time. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
Releases

The FIXED releases are available at the normal locations.
Workarounds

There are no feasible workarounds for this issue.
Patches

To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset.

1-0-model-name-redos.patch - Patch for 1.0 series

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jan 18, 2023
Reviewed Jan 18, 2023
Published by the National Vulnerability Database Feb 9, 2023
Last updated Sep 18, 2023

Severity

Low

EPSS score

0.089%
(40th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-22799

GHSA ID

GHSA-23c2-gwp5-pxw9

Source code

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