CVE-2022-23633 Information

Description

Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Under certain circumstances response bodies will not be closed. In the event a response is not notified of a close ActionDispatch::Executor will not know to reset thread local state for the next request. This can lead to data being leaked to subsequent requests.This has been fixed in Rails 7.0.2.1 6.1.4.5 6.0.4.5 and 5.2.6.1. Upgrading is highly recommended but to work around this problem a middleware described in GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9 can be used.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f9a2ad03943d5c2ba54e1d45f155442b519c75da https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/11/5

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9