CVE-2023-22795

HIGH

Rails < 6.1.7.1 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1 related to the If-None-Match header. A specially crafted HTTP If-None-Match header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking, when on a version of Ruby below 3.2.0. 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 0.0130
EPSS Percentile 79.8%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-1333 CWE-400
Status published
Products (3)
debian/debian_linux 11.0
rubygems/actionpack 4.0.0.beta1 - 6.1.7.1RubyGems
rubyonrails/rails < 6.1.7.1
Published Feb 09, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026