CVE-2023-22792

HIGH

Rails < 6.0.6.1 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0273
EPSS Percentile 85.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-1333 CWE-400
Status published

Affected Products (2)

rubyonrails/rails < 6.0.6.1
rubygems/actionpack < 5.2.8.15RubyGems

Timeline

Published Feb 09, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026