Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, Active Support number helpers accept strings containing scientific notation (e.g. `1e10000`), which `BigDecimal` expands into extremely large decimal representations. This can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption when the expanded number is formatted, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.
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GHSA-2j26-frm8-cmj9 | Rails Active Support has a possible DoS vulnerability in its number helpers |
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 02:30:00 +0000
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| Description | Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, Active Support number helpers accept strings containing scientific notation (e.g. `1e10000`), which `BigDecimal` expands into extremely large decimal representations. This can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption when the expanded number is formatted, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch. | |
| Title | Rails Active Support has a possible DoS vulnerability in its number helpers | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-400 CWE-770 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-03-23T23:29:27.933Z
Reserved: 2026-03-17T22:16:36.719Z
Link: CVE-2026-33176
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-03-24T00:16:28.807
Modified: 2026-03-24T00:16:28.807
Link: CVE-2026-33176
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