GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq Rails has possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-26142
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- actionpack
- Severity
- Low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
- Reviewed
- 2024-02-27
Affected packages
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3.1 → fixed in 7.1.3.1
Description
Possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch
There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the Accept header parsing routines
of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier
CVE-2024-26142.
Versions Affected: >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.3.1
Not affected: < 7.1.0
Fixed Versions: 7.1.3.1
Impact
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Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause Accept header parsing in Action
Dispatch to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a DoS
vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or
use one of the workarounds immediately.
Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby
3.2 or newer are unaffected.
Releases
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The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.
Workarounds
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There are no feasible workarounds for this issue.
Patches
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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.
• 7-1-accept-redox.patch - Patch for 7.1 series
Credits
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Thanks svalkanov for the report and patch!
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-26142 Rails is a web-application framework. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26142 advisory
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b4d3bfb5ed8a5b5a90aad3a3b28860c7a931e272 web
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-redos-vulnerability-in-accept-header-parsing-in-action-dispatch/84946 web
- https://github.com/rails/rails package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2024-26142.yml web