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rubygem-uri: ReDoS vulnerability - upstream's incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755

Published Jun 29, 2023

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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Remediation

Red Hat statement

This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-28755 in upstream.

Weaknesses (2)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 29, 2023
Updated Nov 4, 2025
Reserved Jun 25, 2023
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Jun 29, 2023
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 29, 2023
Updated Nov 4, 2025
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2023-1827 GHSA-HWW2-5G85-429M