Denial of Service Vulnerability in Ruby Software from Ruby Programming Language
CVE-2014-6438

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor: Ruby-lang
Status: Ruby
Vendor: CVE Published:; 6 September 2017

What is CVE-2014-6438?

The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby versions earlier than 1.9.2-p330 is susceptible to a denial of service attack. Malicious users can exploit this vulnerability by providing specially crafted strings that lead to catastrophic regular expression backtracking. As a result, this can cause excessive resource consumption or even crash the application, potentially disrupting services for users.

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