GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-vfg9-r3fq-jvx4 Possible ReDoS vulnerability in HTTP Token authentication in Action Controller

MEDIUM Published 2024-10-15 Modified 2024-10-31 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-47887
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
actionpack
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2024-10-15

Affected packages

• RubyGems actionpack: >= 4.0.0, < 6.1.7.9 → fixed in 6.1.7.9 • RubyGems actionpack: >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.8.5 → fixed in 7.0.8.5 • RubyGems actionpack: >= 7.1.0, < 7.1.4.1 → fixed in 7.1.4.1 • RubyGems actionpack: >= 7.2.0, < 7.2.1.1 → fixed in 7.2.1.1

Description

There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in Action Controller's HTTP Token authentication. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-47887. Impact ------ For applications using HTTP Token authentication via `authenticate_or_request_with_http_token` or similar, a carefully crafted header may cause header parsing to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or apply the relevant patch immediately. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Rails 8.0.0.beta1 depends on Ruby 3.2 or greater so is unaffected. Releases -------- The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue. Credits ------- Thanks to scyoon for reporting

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-47887 Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References