7.5

CVE-2023-22792: rubyonrails rails Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Modified
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2023-22792DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22792GHSA-p84v-45xj-wwqj
Published 09-02-2023Last modified 24-03-2025

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2023-22792 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability in rubyonrails rails. EPSS estimates a 1.70% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 77.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Priority
Prioritisesevere

Severe, CVSS 7.5 (CVE.org); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources; EPSS 2% (FIRST, 03-11-2026)

Source freshness unavailable

How is this decided?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.70%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedNot listed by any tracked catalog.
RansomwareNot flaggedNo ransomware use recorded.
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 7 · Related 5
DSA-5372-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12765-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14067-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15110-1RHSA-2023:6818SUSE-SU-2023:0442-1

Timeline

  1. 09-02-2023
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 24-03-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1. 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 All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

CVSS metrics

4 scores · 4 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.70%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

77%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

No change 0.00 pp

From 1.70% on 04-10-2026

04-10-202603-11-2026

Known exploited

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CISA KEV

Not in the CISA KEV catalog.

ENISA CNW

Not in the ENISA CNW catalog.

CIRCL

Not in the CIRCL catalog.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Version check

Known conditions: network-reachable, no authentication, no user interaction (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.

Debian1 product
  • rails< 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
RubyGems1 product
  • actionpack≥ 3.0.0, < 5.2.8.15 | ≥ 6.0.0, < 6.1.7.1 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.1
Rubyonrails1 product
  • rails≥ 3.0.0, < 6.0.6.1 | ≥ 6.1.0, < 6.1.7.1 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • railsAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 4 products

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