CVE-2026-33169

Published: Mar 24, 2026 Last Modified: Mar 24, 2026
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MEDIUM 6,9
Attack Vector: network
Attack Complexity: low
Privileges Required: none
User Interaction: none
Confidentiality: N/A
Integrity: N/A
Availability: N/A

Description

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Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. `NumberToDelimitedConverter` uses a lookahead-based regular expression with `gsub!` to insert thousands delimiters. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, the interaction between the repeated lookahead group and `gsub!` can produce quadratic time complexity on long digit strings. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.

400

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

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Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability Access Control Other
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Crash, Exit, Or Restart Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu) Dos: Resource Consumption (Memory) Dos: Resource Consumption (Other) Bypass Protection Mechanism Other
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
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1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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Common Consequences
Security Scopes Affected:
Availability
Potential Impacts:
Dos: Resource Consumption (Cpu)
Applicable Platforms
All platforms may be affected
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https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/29154f1097da13d48fdb3200760b3e3da66dcb11
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b54a4b373c6f042cab6ee2033246b1c9ecc38974
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/ec1a0e215efd27a3b3911aae6df978a80f456a49
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
https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-cg4j-q9v8-6v38