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CVE-2026-33176 Active Support is a toolkit of support libraries and Ruby core extensions extracted from the Rails framework

Description

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.

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
ActiveSupport 8.1 8.1.0.beta1 → < 8.1.2.1 8.1.2.1
ActiveSupport 8.0 8.0.0.beta1 → < 8.0.4.1 8.0.4.1
ActiveSupport 7.2 earliest → < 7.2.3.1 7.2.3.1
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