CVE-2023-22792 is a regular expression-based Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting Action Dispatch in Ruby on Rails versions prior to 6.0.6.1, 6.1.7.1, and 7.0.4.1. Specially crafted cookies combined with a malicious X_FORWARDED_HOST header can trigger catastrophic backtracking in the regex engine, leading to high CPU and memory consumption. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity to cause a complete denial of service. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 3.0.0, < 6.0.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 6.1.0, < 6.1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:rubyonrails:rails:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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