CVE-2026-33176
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.
Published:Mar 23, 2026
Last Modified:Mar 25, 2026
EPS:Mar 23, 2026
EPSS Score:0.00016
CVSS Score:7.5
Affected Products
Vendor
Product
Action
Vendor
Rails
Product
Activesupport
Rails
Activesupport
Vendor
Rubyonrails
Product
Rails
Rubyonrails
Rails
Exploits
No exploit reference
Common Weakness Enumeration
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Related CVEs
References
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
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User Interaction
None
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Scope
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Confidentiality
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Integrity
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Availability
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High
