CVE-2021-22904
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-06-11 15:49
Modified
2024-08-03 18:58
Severity ?
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.
References
support@hackerone.comhttps://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22904-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-action-controller-token-authentication/77869Exploit, Mitigation, Patch, Vendor Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1101125Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
support@hackerone.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0009/Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/ahttps://github.com/rails/rails
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