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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-09-06T21:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T12:17:23.859Z

Reserved: 2014-09-16T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2014-6438

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-09-06T21:29:00.253

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:14:23.170

Link: CVE-2014-6438

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-08-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-6438 - Bugzilla