CVE-2021-22904 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Project Actionpack

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
7.9%
top 7.98%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
3
Rubyonrails RailsActionpack Project ActionpackHttps Github.com Rails Rails
Timeline
PublishedJun 11

Description

The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Token Authentication logic in Action Controller due to a too permissive regular expression. Impacted code uses `authenticate_or_request_with_http_token` or `authenticate_with_http_token` for request authentication.

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

Affected Packages4 packages

▶RubyGemsactionpack_project/actionpack6.0.0 — 6.0.3.7+3
▶NVDrubyonrails/rails5.2.5 — 5.2.6+3
▶Debianrubyonrails/rails< 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1+3
▶CVEListV5https/github.com_rails_railsFixed in 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6

Patches

Patch: discuss.rubyonrails.org ↗Patch: discuss.rubyonrails.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

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CVEList
CVE-2021-22904: The actionpack ruby gem before 6↗2021-06-11
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OSV
CVE-2021-22904: The actionpack ruby gem before 6↗2021-06-11
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GHSA
Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication↗2021-05-05
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OSV
Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication↗2021-05-05
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📋Vendor Advisories

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Red Hat
rails: Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication↗2021-05-05
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Debian
CVE-2021-22904: rails - The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a p...↗2021
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