CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2021-22904

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.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact PARTIAL

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22904-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-action-controller-token-authentication/77869 Exploit Mitigation
https://hackerone.com/reports/1101125 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0009/ Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2021-06-11 04:15

Updated : 2021-09-20 01:51

NVD link : CVE-2021-22904

Mitre link : CVE-2021-22904

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other