A ReDoS issue was discovered in the Time component through 0.2.1 in Ruby through 3.2.1. The Time parser mishandles invalid URLs that have specific characters. It causes an increase in execution time for parsing strings to Time objects. The fixed versions are 0.1.1 and 0.2.2.
CVE-2023-28756
This medium-severity CVE scores 5.3 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.7%, top 29% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 5.3
- EG Score
- 5.3(medium)
- EPSS
- 82.7%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 31, 2023
Last Modified
November 4, 2025
References (21)
- cve@mitrehttps://github.com/ruby/time/releases/
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FFZANOQA4RYX7XCB42OO3P24DQKWHEKA/
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G76GZG3RAGYF4P75YY7J7TGYAU7Z5E2T/
- cve@mitrehttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WMIOPLBAAM3FEQNAXA2L7BDKOGSVUT5Z/
- cve@mitrehttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202401-27
- cve@mitrehttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230526-0004/
- cve@mitrehttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/releases/
- cve@mitrehttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2022/12/25/ruby-3-2-0-released/
- cve@mitrehttps://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2023/03/30/redos-in-time-cve-2023-28756/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/ruby/time/releases/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00033.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/09/msg00000.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FFZANOQA4RYX7XCB42OO3P24DQKWHEKA/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/G76GZG3RAGYF4P75YY7J7TGYAU7Z5E2T/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-28756(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2026:8838Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:7307Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
- RHSA-2026:7305Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Hardened Images RPMs bug fix and enhancement update
Patch Availability(13)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | ruby2.3-doc (2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm5) @ xenial | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | ruby2.3-doc (2.3.1-2~ubuntu16.04.16+esm7) @ xenial | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | ruby3.1-dev (3.1.2-6ubuntu0.23.04.1) @ lunar | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | ruby4-0-main-4.0.0-33.3.hum1 | 2026-04-17 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby3-3-main-3.3.10-23.1.hum1 | 2026-04-09 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby3-4-main-3.4.8-31.1.hum1 | 2026-04-09 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby-0:3.0.7-162.el9_4 | 2024-06-11 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby:3.0-8100020240522072634.489197e6 | 2024-05-30 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby:3.1-9030020240320163942.9 | 2024-04-01 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby:3.1-8090020240311122605.a75119d5 | 2024-03-19 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby:2.5-8090020230627084142.b46abd14 | 2023-11-14 | redhat |
| redhat | ruby:2.7-8080020230427102918.63b34585 | 2023-06-27 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-ruby27-ruby-0:2.7.8-132.el7 | 2023-05-24 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
RubyGems(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| time | 0.1.0 | 0.1.1 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(10)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2023:3291MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2023:3291 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:3821MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2023:3821 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:7025MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2023:7025 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:1431MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2024:1431 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:1576MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2024:1576 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:3500MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2024:3500 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2024:3838MODERATE2023-03-21
RHSA-2024:3838 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6055-1MEDIUM
Ruby vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6087-1MEDIUM
Ruby vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6181-1MEDIUM
Ruby vulnerabilities
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