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CVE-2022-22577

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-22577 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Action Pack versions 5.2.0 and greater, and less than 5.2.0, within Ruby on Rails and Debian Linux distributions. This flaw allows an attacker to bypass Content Security Policy (CSP) for non-HTML responses. With a CVSS score of 6.1 (Medium), it requires user interaction (UI:R) and has low impact on confidentiality and integrity (C:L, I:L), but a high scope change (S:C). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.2.0, < 5.2.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.5.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:actionpack:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.70%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
74.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0170 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 26,219 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (6)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.13 for RHEL 8Fixed in: tfm-rubygem-actionpack-0:6.1.7-1.el8sat
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 5.2.7.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 6.0.4.8
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 6.1.5.1
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 7.0.2.4
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2Fixed in: actionpack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-mm33-5vfq-3mm3medium

Cross-site Scripting Vulnerability in Action Pack

Apr 27, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-22577Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: Possible cross-site scripting vulnerability in Action Pack

Apr 27, 2022

References

discuss.rubyonrails.org / t/cve-2022-22577-possible-xss-vulnerability-in-action-pack/80533
PatchVendor Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20221118-0002
Third Party Advisory
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5372