Description

The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string.

Remediation

References

CVE-2014-6438

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Plone CMS Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls Vulnerability (CVE-2015-7317)

Severity

High

Classification

CVE-2014-6438 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Tags

Missing Update Known Vulnerabilities