Bug 2164800 (CVE-2023-22792) - CVE-2023-22792 rubygem-actionpack: Denial of Service in Action Dispatch
Summary: CVE-2023-22792 rubygem-actionpack: Denial of Service in Action Dispatch
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2023-22792
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Depends On: 2164802 2164803
Blocks: 2162605
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2023-01-26 14:24 UTC by ybuenos
Modified: 2025-08-01 08:29 UTC (History)
16 users (show)

Fixed In Version: rubygem-actionpack 6.1.7.1, rubygem-actionpack 7.0.4.1
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:6818 0 None None None 2023-11-08 14:17:16 UTC

Description ybuenos 2023-01-26 14:24:22 UTC 
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.

We recommend that all users upgrade to one of the FIXED versions. In the meantime, users can mitigate this vulnerability by using a load balancer or other device to filter out malicious X_FORWARDED_HOST headers before they reach the application.
Comment 1 ybuenos 2023-01-26 14:25:29 UTC 
Created rubygem-actionpack tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2164802]
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-11-08 14:17:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2023:6818 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:6818
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