CVE-2021-22904 (GCVE-0-2021-22904)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-11 15:49 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:58
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Token Authentication logic in Action Controller due to a too permissive regular expression. Impacted code uses `authenticate_or_request_with_http_token` or `authenticate_with_http_token` for request authentication.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://hackerone.com/reports/1101125 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22904-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-2021080… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | https://github.com/rails/rails |
Affected:
Fixed in 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6
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