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CVE-2021-22904 (GCVE-0-2021-22904)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-06-11 15:49 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:58
VLAI
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)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Denial of Service (CWE-400)
Assigner
References
Impacted products
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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