GHSA-M63J-WH5W-C252

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2019-03-13 17:25 – Updated: 2023-08-08 16:46
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Summary
Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View
Details

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View

Impact

Specially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests. This impacts all Rails applications that render views.

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

Releases

The 6.0.0.beta3, 5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, and 4.2.11.1 releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

This vulnerability can be mitigated by wrapping render calls with respond_to blocks. For example, the following example is vulnerable: 

class UserController < ApplicationController 
  def index 
    render "index" 
  end 
end

But the following code is not vulnerable: 

class UserController < ApplicationController 
  def index 
    respond_to |format| 
      format.html { render "index" } 
    end 
  end 
end

Implicit rendering is impacted, so this code is vulnerable: 

class UserController < ApplicationController 
  def index 
  end 
end

But can be changed this this: 

class UserController < ApplicationController 
  def index 
    respond_to |format| 
      format.html { render "index" } 
    end 
  end 
end

Alternatively to specifying the format, the following monkey patch can be applied in an initializer: 

$ cat config/initializers/formats_filter.rb 
# frozen_string_literal: true 

ActionDispatch::Request.prepend(Module.new do 
  def formats 
    super().select do |format| 
      format.symbol || format.ref == "*/*" 
    end 
  end 
end)

Please note that only the 5.2.x, 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases.

Also note that the patches for this vulnerability are the same as CVE-2019-5418.

Credits

Thanks to John Hawthorn john@hawthorn.email of GitHub

Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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    "nvd_published_at": "2019-03-27T14:29:01Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
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  "details": "# Denial of Service Vulnerability in Action View\n\nImpact \n------ \nSpecially crafted accept headers can cause the Action View template location code to consume 100% CPU, causing the server unable to process requests.  This impacts all Rails applications that render views. \n\nAll users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately. \n\nReleases \n-------- \nThe 6.0.0.beta3, 5.2.2.1, 5.1.6.2, 5.0.7.2, and 4.2.11.1 releases are available at the normal locations. \n\nWorkarounds \n----------- \nThis vulnerability can be mitigated by wrapping `render` calls with `respond_to` blocks.  For example, the following example is vulnerable: \n\n``` ruby\nclass UserController \u003c ApplicationController \n  def index \n    render \"index\" \n  end \nend \n``` \n\nBut the following code is not vulnerable: \n\n```ruby \nclass UserController \u003c ApplicationController \n  def index \n    respond_to |format| \n      format.html { render \"index\" } \n    end \n  end \nend \n``` \n\nImplicit rendering is impacted, so this code is vulnerable: \n\n```ruby \nclass UserController \u003c ApplicationController \n  def index \n  end \nend \n``` \n\nBut can be changed this this: \n\n```ruby \nclass UserController \u003c ApplicationController \n  def index \n    respond_to |format| \n      format.html { render \"index\" } \n    end \n  end \nend \n``` \n\nAlternatively to specifying the format, the following monkey patch can be applied in an initializer: \n\n``` \n$ cat config/initializers/formats_filter.rb \n# frozen_string_literal: true \n\nActionDispatch::Request.prepend(Module.new do \n  def formats \n    super().select do |format| \n      format.symbol || format.ref == \"*/*\" \n    end \n  end \nend) \n``` \n\nPlease note that only the 5.2.x, 5.1.x, 5.0.x, and 4.2.x series are supported at present. Users of earlier unsupported releases are advised to upgrade as soon as possible as we cannot guarantee the continued availability of security fixes for unsupported releases. \n\nAlso note that the patches for this vulnerability are the same as CVE-2019-5418. \n\nCredits \n------- \nThanks to John Hawthorn \u003cjohn@hawthorn.email\u003e of GitHub ",
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  "modified": "2023-08-08T16:46:59Z",
  "published": "2019-03-13T17:25:55Z",
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/03/msg00042.html"
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/Y43636TH4D6T46IC6N2RQVJTRFJAAYGA"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-05/msg00011.html"
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}


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