GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-g8ww-46x2-2p65 Denial of Service in Action Dispatch

HIGH Published 2021-05-05 Modified 2023-08-08 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2021-22902
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
actionpack
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2021-05-05

Affected packages

• RubyGems actionpack: >= 6.0.0, < 6.0.3.7 → fixed in 6.0.3.7 • RubyGems actionpack: >= 6.1.0, < 6.1.3.2 → fixed in 6.1.3.2

Description

Impact ------ There is a possible Denial of Service vulnerability in Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine. Releases -------- The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- The following monkey patch placed in an initializer can be used to work around the issue. ```ruby module Mime class Type MIME_REGEXP = /\A(?:\*\/\*|#{MIME_NAME}\/(?:\*|#{MIME_NAME})(?>\s*#{MIME_PARAMETER}\s*)*)\z/ end end ``` Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. • 6-0-Prevent-catastrophic-backtracking-during-mime-parsin.patch - Patch for 6.0 series • 6-1-Prevent-catastrophic-backtracking-during-mime-parsin.patch - Patch for 6.1 series Please note that only the 6.1.Z, 6.0.Z, and 5.2.Z series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases. Credits ------- Thanks to Security Curious for reporting this!

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2021-22902 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References