CVE-2023-22792

2023-02-0900:00:00

CWE-400

hackerone

www.cve.org

cve-2023-22792

dos vulnerability

action dispatch

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

42.9%

JSON

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1. Specially crafted cookies, in combination with a specially crafted X_FORWARDED_HOST header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "n/a",
    "product": "https://github.com/rails/rails",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "6.0.6.1, 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1",
        "status": "affected"
      }
    ]
  }
]