Regular Expression DoS Vulnerability in Action Dispatch by Ruby on Rails
CVE-2023-22792
Key Information:
- Vendor
Rubyonrails
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 9 February 2023
What is CVE-2023-22792?
A Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability has been identified in Action Dispatch affecting various versions of Ruby on Rails. This flaw arises from the handling of specially crafted cookies in conjunction with a modified X_FORWARDED_HOST header, leading to catastrophic backtracking within the regular expression engine. When exploited, an attacker can significantly degrade the performance of the affected system by causing excessive CPU and memory usage, resulting in service interruptions. Users of any susceptible version are strongly advised to upgrade to the latest release or implement recommended workarounds to mitigate this vulnerability.

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Affected Version(s)
https://github.com/rails/rails 6.0.6.1, 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1
References
CVSS V3.1
Timeline
Vulnerability published
Vulnerability Reserved
