CVE-2013-4287

EPSS 2.0%

RubyGems Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability

Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:GHSA-9j7m-rjqx-48vhDEBIAN-CVE-2013-4287

Description

Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in Gem::Version::VERSION_PATTERN in lib/rubygems/version.rb in RubyGems before 1.8.23.1, 1.8.24 through 1.8.25, 2.0.x before 2.0.8, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0, as used in Ruby 1.9.0 through 2.0.0p247, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted gem version that triggers a large amount of backtracking in a regular expression.

Affected packages (2)

References (16)