CVE-2023-22792

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 9
Modified
Published: 09 Feb 2023, 00:00
Last modified:24 Mar 2025, 20:30

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
2.26% LOW
2% probability +0.58%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

09 Feb 2023, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
24 Mar 2025, 20:30
Last Modified
Vulnerability 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

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 2.26%• Percentile: 85%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

  • CWE-1333•Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

    The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Systems

  • rubyonrails•rails

    ≥ 3.0.0, < 6.0.6.1 | ≥ 6.1.0, < 6.1.7.1 | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.1

References (3)