Vulnerability advisory
GHSA-cg4j-q9v8-6v38
Rails Active Support has a possible ReDoS vulnerability in number_to_delimited
Also known as CVE-2026-33169
Severity
- CVSS 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected versions
Description
Impact
NumberToDelimitedConverter used a regular expression with gsub! to insert thousands delimiters. This could produce quadratic time complexity on long digit strings.
Releases
The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.
Credit
This issue was responsibly reported by Hackerone researcher scyoon.
References
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-cg4j-q9v8-6v38 ↗
- Advisorynvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-33169 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/commit/29154f1097da13d48fdb3200760b3e3da66dcb11 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/commit/b54a4b373c6f042cab6ee2033246b1c9ecc38974 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/commit/ec1a0e215efd27a3b3911aae6df978a80f456a49 ↗
- Packagegithub.com/rails/rails ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v7.2.3.1 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.0.4.1 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v8.1.2.1 ↗
- Webgithub.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/activesupport/CVE-2026-33169.yml ↗