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CVE-2022-23633

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-23633 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Action Pack, a Ruby on Rails framework, affecting Debian Linux and Ruby on Rails versions prior to 7.0.2.1, 6.1.4.5, 6.0.4.5, and 5.2.6.1. The vulnerability allows for data leakage to subsequent web requests due to improper closure of response bodies, preventing the ActionDispatch::Executor from resetting thread local state. With a CVSS score of 5.9, this issue has a high impact on confidentiality and is remotely exploitable with high attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 5.0.0, < 5.2.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.0.0, < 6.0.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.4.6CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.23%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0223 is in the 69th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (7)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.11 for RHEL 7Fixed in: tfm-rubygem-actionpack-0:6.0.4.7-1.el7sat
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.11 for RHEL 8Fixed in: tfm-rubygem-actionpack-0:6.0.4.7-1.el8sat
View patch
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 5.2.6.2
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 7.0.2.2
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 6.0.4.6
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: actionpackFixed in: 6.1.4.6

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9high

Exposure of information in Action Pack

Feb 11, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-23633Moderate

rubygem-actionpack: information leak between requests

Feb 11, 2022

References

github.com / rails/rails/commit/f9a2ad03943d5c2ba54e1d45f155442b519c75da
PatchThird Party Advisory
github.com / rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9
MitigationThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00002.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20240119-0013
debian.org / security/2023/dsa-5372
Third Party Advisory
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2022/02/11/5
Mailing ListMitigationPatchThird Party Advisory