Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Affects Various Rails Applications
CVE-2022-44571
7.5HIGH
Key Information:
- Vendor
Rack Project
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 9 February 2023
What is CVE-2022-44571?
A vulnerability exists in the Content-Disposition header parsing component of Rack that can be exploited to cause a denial of service. Attackers may craft specific inputs leading to extended processing times in header parsing, resulting in applications that utilize Rack—practically all Rails applications—becoming unresponsive. This issue has been addressed in various versions, ultimately improving the resilience of affected systems.
Affected Version(s)
https://github.com/rack/rack 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1, 3.0.0.1