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high 7.5

CVE-2023-22799 json

ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in GlobalID

published 2023-01-18 3 y ago modified 2026-10-24 15 d ago also GHSA-23c2-gwp5-pxw9 , EUVD-2023-0304

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A ReDoS based DoS vulnerability in the GlobalID <1.0.1 which could allow an attacker supplying a carefully crafted input can cause the regular expression engine to take an unexpected amount of time. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

Patch / fix

  • rubygems globalid 1.0.1
  • rubyonrails globalid 1.0.1
  • ruby-globalid Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 0.6.0-2

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22799

  • foreman satellite utils 6.14, satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 3.7.0.9-1.el8sat
  • foreman-cli satellite utils 6.14, satellite 6.14 3.7.0.9-1.el8sat
  • foreman-ec2 satellite 6.14 3.7.0.9-1.el8sat
  • rubygem-git satellite 6.14 1.18.0-1.el8sat
  • puppet-agent satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 7.26.0-3.el8sat
  • puppetserver satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 7.11.0-1.el8sat
  • rubygem-rack satellite capsule 6.14, satellite 6.14 2.2.7-1.el8sat
  • foreman-ovirt satellite 6.14 3.7.0.9-1.el8sat

red hat advisories RHSA-2023:6818

  • rubygem-globalid SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP4, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP3, SLE High Availability Extension 15 SP2 +2 more 0.4.1-150000.3.3.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2023:0328-1

  • rubygem-globalid openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.1-1.9
  • rubygem-globalid openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.1-1.7
  • rubygem-globalid openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.2.1-1.5
  • rubygem-globalid openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.1.0-1.1
  • ruby3.2-rubygem-globalid openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.1.0-1.3

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:10347-1openSUSE-SU-2025:15116-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14168-1openSUSE-SU-2024:12648-1openSUSE-SU-2024:13156-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2023-22799 updated cvss 7.5

rubygem-globalid: ReDoS vulnerability

  • Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 3scale-amp2/zync-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 rubygem-globalid 1.1.0-1.el8sat
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:6818
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 cjson 1.7.14-5.el8sat, katello 4.9.0-1.el8sat, libsolv 0.7.22-4.el8pc, libcomps 0.1.18-4.el8pc, python-idna 3.3-2.el8pc, candlepin 4.3.1-1.el8sat, +668 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.05% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
rubygems globalid
>=0.2.1, <1.0.1
1.0.1

Affected products

  • n/a https://github.com/rails/globalid

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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References

Sources

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