CVE-2021-22880
HIGHActive Record <6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 - DoS
Title source: llmDescription
The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. Carefully crafted input can cause the input validation in the `money` type of the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record to spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This only impacts Rails applications that are using PostgreSQL along with money type columns that take user input.
Exploits (1)
References (6)
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0260
EPSS Percentile
85.7%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (4)
fedoraproject/fedora
32
fedoraproject/fedora
33
rubygems/activerecord
5.0.0 - 5.2.4.5RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails
4.2.0 - 5.2.4.5
Published
Feb 11, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026