CVE-2013-4287
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4287
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2013-4287.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2013-4287
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2013-10-17T23:55:04Z
- Modified
- 2025-08-09T19:01:27Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://blog.rubygems.org/2013/09/09/CVE-2013-4287.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1427.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1441.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1523.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-1852.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0207.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/55381
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/09/10/1
- https://puppet.com/security/cve/cve-2013-4287