GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-x76w-6vjr-8xgj Possible ReDoS vulnerability in query parameter filtering in Action Dispatch
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2024-41128
- 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/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2024-10-15
Affected packages
• RubyGems actionpack: >= 3.1.0, < 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 the query parameter filtering routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-41128.
Impact
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Carefully crafted query parameters can cause query parameter filtering 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
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The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.
Workarounds
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Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue.
Credits
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Thanks to scyoon for the report and patches!
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2024-41128 Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-x76w-6vjr-8xgj web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-41128 advisory
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/27121e80f6dbb260f5a9f0452cd8411cb681f075 web
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b0fe99fa854ec8ff4498e75779b458392d1560ef web
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b1241f468d1b32235f438c2e2203386e6efd3891 web
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/fb493bebae1a9b83e494fe7edbf01f6167d606fd web
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2024-41128 web
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319036 web
- https://github.com/rails/rails package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2024-41128.yml web