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sentry-raven allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large exponent value in a scientific number

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 24, 2017 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Nov 5, 2023

Package

bundler sentry-raven (RubyGems)

Affected versions

< 0.12.2

Patched versions

0.12.2

Description

The numtok function in lib/raven/okjson.rb in the raven-ruby gem before 0.12.2 for Ruby allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a large exponent value in a scientific number.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Jan 20, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 24, 2017
Reviewed Jun 16, 2020
Last updated Nov 5, 2023

Severity

Moderate

EPSS score

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

This score estimates the probability of this vulnerability being exploited within the next 30 days. Data provided by FIRST.
(72nd percentile)

Weaknesses

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Learn more on MITRE.

CVE ID

CVE-2014-9490

GHSA ID

GHSA-c9c5-9fpr-m882

Source code

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