CVE-2017-6181 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the Onigmo regular expression library, specifically affecting Ruby 2.4.0. A remote attacker can trigger deep recursion and an application crash by providing a specially crafted regular expression. Rated 7.5 HIGH, this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, leading to a high impact on availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ruby-lang:ruby:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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