CVE-2021-22902 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Rails
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
1.1%
top 22.30%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
Description
The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6