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CVE-2023-36617

Published: Jun 29, 2023Updated: Nov 4, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDU csafCWE-1333
NVD MITRE
5.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.5%
Top 28.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
1 Known
Remediation
Patch Available

Description

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the URI component before 0.12.2 for Ruby. The URI parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. There is an increase in execution time for parsing strings to URI objects with rfc2396_parser.rb and rfc3986_parser.rb. NOTE: this issue exists becuse of an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755. Version 0.10.3 is also a fixed version.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:NUI:NS:UC:NI:NA:L
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:NPrivileges Required
None
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:NIntegrity
None
A:LAvailability
Low
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Weaknesses

CWE-1333

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise LinuxRed Hat Inc.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Debian GNU/LinuxСообщество свободного программного обеспечения
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Software CollectionsRed Hat Inc.
On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
UbuntuCanonical Ltd.
On-premOS
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat 3scale API Management PlatformRed Hat Inc.
SaaSSaaS Service
Cloud & SaaS / api-gateway
red hat inc.commercialUSOperating Systemsaka red hat
сообщество свободного программного обеспеченияoss-projectOperating Systemsaka сообщество свободного программного обеспечения, fsf
canonical ltd.commercialGBOperating Systemsaka canonical
and 10 more affected products View all →

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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Official Patch Available
Workaround Available

MITRE ATT&CK

1 technique
Impact
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References

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/
ruby-lang.org
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-36617
security-tracker.debian.org
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-36617
access.redhat.com
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Timeline

Published
Jun 29, 2023
Last Updated
Nov 4, 2025

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