CVE-2026-33176CWE-400CWE-770

Rails Active Support has a possible DoS vulnerability in its number helpers

Medium · published March 23, 2026

CVSS v4.0
6.6
EPSS
1%
Percentile
58.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework. Prior to versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1, Active Support number helpers accept strings containing scientific notation (e.g. `1e10000`), which `BigDecimal` expands 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. Versions 8.1.2.1, 8.0.4.1, and 7.2.3.1 contain a patch.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v4.0
6.6 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
EPSS
0.00858 · 58.0th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption; CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-03-23T23:29Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 23 MAR 23:29Z
    Rails Active Support has a possible DoS vulnerability in its number helpers
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