CVE-2026-33169
Severity CVSS v4.0:
MEDIUM
Type:
CWE-400
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption ('Resource Exhaustion')
Publication date:
24/03/2026
Last modified:
24/03/2026
Description
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.
Impact
Base Score 4.0
6.90
Severity 4.0
MEDIUM
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- 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