CVE-2026-33176
6.6
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Summary
Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, Active Support number helpers accept strings containing scientific notation (e.g. 1e10000), which BigDecimal expands into extremely large decimal representations. This can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption when the expanded number is formatted, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.
Affected Software
| Vendor | Product | Version Range | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| rails | activesupport | >= 8.1.0.beta1, < 8.1.2.1 | affected |
| rails | activesupport | >= 8.0.0.beta1, < 8.0.4.1 | affected |
| rails | activesupport | < 7.2.3.1 | affected |
Weaknesses
- CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-770: CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
ADP Enrichment
CISA ADP Vulnrichment
- SSVC:
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: yes
- Technical Impact: partial
References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-2j26-frm8-cmj9
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/19dbab51ca086a657bb86458042bc44314916bcb
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ebd6be18120d1136511eb516338e27af25ac0a1a
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ee2c59e730e5b8faed502cd2c573109df093f856
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1
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