{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-08-19T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ruby: Unsafe parsing of long strings via decode_www_form_component method",
    "id" : "1490845",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1490845"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "7.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-20",
  "details" : [ "The URI.decode_www_form_component method in Ruby before 1.9.2-p330 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (catastrophic regular expression backtracking, resource consumption, or application crash) via a crafted string." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "release_date" : "2026-04-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:7305",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1",
    "package" : "ruby3-3-main-3.3.10-23.1.hum1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "release_date" : "2026-04-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:7307",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1",
    "package" : "ruby3-4-main-3.4.8-31.1.hum1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "release_date" : "2026-04-17T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2026:8838",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1",
    "package" : "ruby4-0-main-4.0.0-33.3.hum1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "CloudForms Management Engine 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-ruby22-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:cloudforms_managementengine:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "CloudForms Management Engine 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby-200-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:cloudforms_managementengine:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-ruby22-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-ruby23-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-ruby24-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "ruby193-ruby",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:rhel_sam:1"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-6438\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-6438\nhttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2014/08/19/ruby-1-9-2-p330-released/" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2014-6438",
  "csaw" : false
}