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CVE-2023-28756

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-28756 is a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability affecting the Time component (versions through 0.2.1) in Ruby (versions through 3.2.1), specifically impacting Debian, Fedora, and Ruby-lang distributions. This flaw allows attackers to trigger increased execution time when parsing malformed URLs into Time objects. Rated Medium severity (CVSS 5.3), it has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, potentially leading to denial of service. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.7.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:time:0.1.0:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
0.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:time:0.2.1:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
LOW
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
1.4
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.45%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0245 is in the 74th percentile among its peer group of 23,703 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (12)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: ruby-0:3.0.7-162.el9_4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: rh-ruby27-ruby-0:2.7.8-132.el7
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ruby:2.7-8080020230427102918.63b34585
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ruby:2.5-8090020230627084142.b46abd14
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ruby:3.1-8090020240311122605.a75119d5
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ruby:3.0-8100020240522072634.489197e6
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Fixed in: ruby:3.1-9030020240320163942.9
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: timeFixed in: 0.2.2
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: timeFixed in: 0.1.1
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: ruby:2.6/ruby
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-ruby30-ruby

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-fg7x-g82r-94qchigh

Ruby Time component ReDoS issue

Mar 31, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-28756Moderate

ruby: ReDoS vulnerability in Time

Mar 21, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00000.html
github.com / ruby/time/releases
Release Notes
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FFZANOQA4RYX7XCB42OO3P24DQKWHEKA
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G76GZG3RAGYF4P75YY7J7TGYAU7Z5E2T
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMIOPLBAAM3FEQNAXA2L7BDKOGSVUT5Z
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202401-27
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20230526-0004
Third Party Advisory
ruby-lang.org / en/downloads/releases
Release Notes
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released
Release Notes
ruby-lang.org / en/news/2023/03/30/redos-in-time-cve-2023-28756
Vendor Advisory