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CVE-2023-28756 (time): Ruby Time component ReDos issue

Ruby Time component ReDos issue

Published: March 31, 2023

SECURITY IDENTIFIERS

GEM

time

SEVERITY

CVSS v3.x: 7.5 (High)

PATCHED VERSIONS

~> 0.1.1 >= 0.2.2

DESCRIPTION

A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.

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