CVE-2021-4250

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-4250
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-12-18 22:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:40:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in cgriego active_attr up to 0.15.2. This affects the function call of the file lib/active_attr/typecasting/boolean_typecaster.rb of the component Regex Handler. The manipulation of the argument value leads to denial of service. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. Upgrading to version 0.15.3 is able to address this issue. The name of the patch is dab95e5843b01525444b82bd7b336ef1d79377df. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-216207.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-404

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Active Attr Project Active Attr All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
fix ReDoS vulnerability by wonda-tea-coffee · Pull Request #185 · cgriego/active_attr · GitHub N/A github.com
Release v0.15.4 · cgriego/active_attr · GitHub N/A github.com
Release v0.15.3 · cgriego/active_attr · GitHub MISC github.com
ReDoS vulnerability in ActiveAttr::Typecasting::BooleanTypecaster#call · Issue #184 · cgriego/active_attr · GitHub N/A github.com
CVE-2021-4250 | cgriego active_attr Regex boolean_typecaster.rb call denial of service N/A vuldb.com
fix ReDoS vulnerability (#185) · cgriego/active_attr@dab95e5 · GitHub N/A github.com
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