CVE-2021-22904

rails: Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication

Published Jun 11, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 4.9% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-2655-1 rails security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4929-1 rails security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1009 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-7wjx-3g7j-8584 Possible DoS Vulnerability in Action Controller Token Authentication
History

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Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
hackerone
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:58 PM
Reserved
Jan 6, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jun 11, 2021, 4:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:37 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
May 5, 2021, 12:00 AM