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CVE-2023-22795

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CVE-2023-22795

Published: Feb 9, 2023

Modified: Aug 2, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.1.7.1 and <7.0.4.1 related to the If-None-Match header. A specially crafted HTTP If-None-Match header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking, when on a version of Ruby below 3.2.0. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

VendorProductVersions

n/a

https://github.com/rails/rails

affected
6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1

Weaknesses (CWE)

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