Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-6438

Title: Ruby-Lang Ruby Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-6438.

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Sep 06, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-6438: 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.

Impacted Vendors

yukihiro_matsumoto 1

ruby-lang 1

Reference Links

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032874 https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/07/13/6 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1032874 https://github.com/ruby/www.ruby-lang.org/issues/817 https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns