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CVE-2022-44571
February 09, 2023
There is a denial of service vulnerability in the Content-Disposition parsingcomponent of Rack fixed in 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1, 3.0.0.1. This could allow an attacker to craft an input that can cause Content-Disposition header parsing in Rackto take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial ofservice attack vector. This header is used typically used in multipartparsing. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtuallyall Rails applications) are impacted.
Affected Packages
rack (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.0 <3.0.4.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.0.4.1
rack (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=2.1.0 <2.1.4.2
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.1.4.2
rack (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=2.2.0 <2.2.6.1
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.2.6.1
rack (RUBY):
Affected version(s) >=2.0.0 <2.0.9.2
Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 2.0.9.2
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
EPSS
Base Score:
3.1