Advisory details:
gitlab / gem/activesupport/CVE-2026-33176
| Advisory ID | gitlab/gem/activesupport/CVE-2026-33176 |
| Aliases |
CVE-2026-33176
GHSA-2j26-frm8-cmj9 |
| Summary | Rails Active Support has a possible DoS vulnerability in its number helpers Active Support number helpers accept strings containing scientific notation (e.g. `1e10000`), which when converted to a string could be expanded into extremely large decimal representations. This can cause excessive memory allocation and CPU consumption when the expanded number is formatted, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. |
| Status | Published |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 0.0 |
| Risk | |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| Introduced and Fixed Package Commit Patches | Package Commit Patches Details |
| There are no known CWE. |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv3.1 | https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/advisories-community/-/blob/main/gem/activesupport/CVE-2026-33176.yml |
No exploits are available.
No EPSS data available for this advisory.
| Patch URL | |
|---|---|
| There are no known patches. | |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
Vector: SSVCv2/E:N/A:Y/T:P/P:M/B:A/M:M/D:T/2026-03-24T18:42:42Z/
Decision: Track
Source URL: https://github.com/cisagov/vulnrichment/blob/develop/2026/33xxx/CVE-2026-33176.json
Source Advisory: vulnrichment/CVE-2026-33176
[{'Exploitation': 'none'},
{'Automatable': 'yes'},
{'Technical Impact': 'partial'},
{'Mission Prevalence': 'minimal'},
{'Public Well-being Impact': 'material'},
{'Mission & Well-being': 'medium'}]