CVE-2023-28846 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting the unpoly-rails gem in Rails applications that use Unpoly as a JavaScript framework. An attacker can craft exceedingly long URLs, causing the application to generate oversized X-Up-Location response headers. This can lead to load balancers removing the affected application instance from service, causing temporary unavailability. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on availability, but no impact on confidentiality or integrity. It is categorized as CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, and no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are available. Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.7.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:unpoly:unpoly-rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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