CVE-2024-26142

Rails possible ReDoS vulnerability in Accept header parsing in Action Dispatch

Published: Feb 27, 2024Updated: Feb 14, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-1333

7.5HIGH

Description

Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAttack Vector

Network

AC:LAttack Complexity

Low

PR:NPrivileges Required

None

UI:NUser Interaction

None

Scope

S:UScope

Unchanged

Impact

C:NConfidentiality

None

I:NIntegrity

None

A:HAvailability

High

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Weaknesses

CWE-1333

Affected Products

rails

oss-projectaka rails-html-sanitizer, activestorage

railsLibrary

OSS Libraries / web-framework

rubyonrails

oss-project·USaka rails, ruby on rails, rubyonrails.org

package-ecosystem

Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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References

https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-jjhx-jhvp-74wq

github.com

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/b4d3bfb5ed8a5b5a90aad3a3b28860c7a931e272

github.com

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-redos-vulnerability-in-accept-header-parsing-in-action-dispatch/84946

discuss.rubyonrails.org

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