CVE-2024-26142
Rails possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Feb 27, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Feb 14, 2024
Description
Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | GitHub_M |
Weaknesses
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
railsrails |
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References
- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b4d3bfb5ed8a5b5a90aad3a3b28860c7a931e272
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-redos-vulnerability-in-accept-header-parsing-in-action-dispatch/84946
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/actionpack/CVE-2024-26142.yml
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240503-0003/
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