CVE-2021-41817
ADVISORY - githubSummary
Date’s parsing methods including Date.parse are using Regexps internally, some of which are vulnerable against regular expression denial of service. Applications and libraries that apply such methods to untrusted input may be affected.
The fix limits the input length up to 128 bytes by default instead of changing the regexps. This is because Date gem uses many Regexps and it is possible that there are still undiscovered vulnerable Regexps. For compatibility, it is allowed to remove the limitation by explicitly passing limit keywords as nil like Date.parse(str, limit: nil), but note that it may take a long time to parse.
Please update the date gem to version 3.2.1, 3.1.2, 3.0.2, and 2.0.1, or later. You can use gem update date to update it. If you are using bundler, please add gem "date", ">= 3.2.1" to your Gemfile. If you import date
from the standard library rather than as a gem you should update your Ruby install to 3.0.3
, 2.7.5
, 2.6.9
or later.
Users unable to upgrade may consider using Date.strptime
instead with a predefined date format
Date.strptime('2001-02-20', '%Y-%m-%d')
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
GitHub
3.9
CVSS SCORE
7.5highPackage | Type | OS Name | OS Version | Affected Ranges | Fix Versions |
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date | gem | - | - | >=3.1.0,<3.1.2 | 3.1.2 |
date | gem | - | - | <2.0.1 | 2.0.1 |
date | gem | - | - | >=3.0.0,<3.0.2 | 3.0.2 |
date | gem | - | - | >=3.2.0,<3.2.1 | 3.2.1 |
CVSS:3 Severity and metrics
The CVSS metrics represent different qualitative aspects of a vulnerability that impact the overall score, as defined by the CVSS Specification.
The vulnerable component is bound to the network stack, but the attack is limited at the protocol level to a logically adjacent topology. This can mean an attack must be launched from the same shared physical (e.g., Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11) or logical (e.g., local IP subnet) network, or from within a secure or otherwise limited administrative domain (e.g., MPLS, secure VPN to an administrative network zone). One example of an Adjacent attack would be an ARP (IPv4) or neighbor discovery (IPv6) flood leading to a denial of service on the local LAN segment (e.g., CVE-2013-6014).
Specialized access conditions or extenuating circumstances do not exist. An attacker can expect repeatable success when attacking the vulnerable component.
The attacker is unauthorized prior to attack, and therefore does not require any access to settings or files of the vulnerable system to carry out an attack.
The vulnerable system can be exploited without interaction from any user.
An exploited vulnerability can only affect resources managed by the same security authority. In this case, the vulnerable component and the impacted component are either the same, or both are managed by the same security authority.
There is no loss of confidentiality.
There is no loss of trust or accuracy within the impacted component.
There is a total loss of availability, resulting in the attacker being able to fully deny access to resources in the impacted component; this loss is either sustained (while the attacker continues to deliver the attack) or persistent (the condition persists even after the attack has completed). Alternatively, the attacker has the ability to deny some availability, but the loss of availability presents a direct, serious consequence to the impacted component.
NIST
3.9
CVSS SCORE
7.5highAlpine
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Debian
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Ubuntu
3.9
CVSS SCORE
7.5mediumAlma
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N/AhighAlma
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N/AmediumAlma
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N/AmediumAlma
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N/AmediumAmazon
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N/AmediumBitnami
BIT-2021-41817
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N/AhighBitnami
BIT-ruby-2021-41817
3.9
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7.5highBitnami
BIT-ruby-min-2021-41817
3.9
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7.5highRed Hat
3.9
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7.5mediumRocky
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N/AhighRocky
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N/AlowRocky
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N/AlowRocky
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N/AlowOracle
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N/AhighOracle
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N/AmediumOracle
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N/AmediumOracle
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N/AmediumPhoton
CVE-2021-41817
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7.5highintheWild
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