CVE-2023-36617

5.3 MEDIUM
Published: June 29, 2023 Modified: November 04, 2025
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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.

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0
Vector String
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27LUWREIFTP3MQAW7QE4PJM4DPAQJWXF/
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QA6XUKUY7B5OLNQBLHOT43UW7C5NIOQQ/
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0002/
Source: cve@mitre.org
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/
Source: cve@mitre.org
Mitigation Vendor Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00000.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27LUWREIFTP3MQAW7QE4PJM4DPAQJWXF/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QA6XUKUY7B5OLNQBLHOT43UW7C5NIOQQ/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/27LUWREIFTP3MQAW7QE4PJM4DPAQJWXF/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230725-0002/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/06/29/redos-in-uri-CVE-2023-36617/
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Mitigation Vendor Advisory

10 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
5.3 / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
1.1%
77th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333

Affected Vendors

ruby-lang

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