CVE-2021-22904
The actionpack ruby gem before 6.1.3.2, 6.0.3.7, 5.2.4.6, 5.2.6 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Token Authentication logic in Action Controller due to a too permissive regular expression. Impacted code uses authenticate_or_request_with_http_token or authenticate_with_http_token for request authentication.
| Software | From | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| rubyonrails / rails | 6.1.0 | 6.1.3.2 |
| rubyonrails / rails | 6.0.0 | 6.0.3.7 |
| rubyonrails / rails | - | 5.2.4.6 |
| rubyonrails / rails | 5.2.5 | 5.2.6 |
actionpack
|
6.0.0 | 6.0.3.7 |
|
actionpack
|
6.1.0 | 6.1.3.2 |
|
actionpack
|
5.2.5 | 5.2.6 |
|
actionpack
|
2.0.0 | 5.2.4.6 |
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22904-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-action-controller-token-authentication/77869
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v5.2.4.6
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v5.2.6
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v6.0.3.7
- https://github.com/rails/rails/releases/tag/v6.1.3.2
- https://groups.google.com/g/rubyonrails-security/c/Pf1TjkOBdyQ
- https://hackerone.com/reports/1101125
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0009/
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