CVE-2024-47887 Information

Description

Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Starting in version 4.0.0 and prior to versions 6.1.7.9 7.0.8.5 7.1.4.1 and 7.2.1.1 there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in Action Controller’s HTTP Token authentication. For applications using HTTP Token authentication via authenticate_or_request_with_http_token or similar a carefully crafted header may cause header parsing to take an unexpected amount of time possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade to versions 6.1.7.9 7.0.8.5 7.1.4.1 or 7.2.1.1 or apply the relevant patch immediately. One may choose to use Ruby 3.2 as a workaround.Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Rails 8.0.0.beta1 depends on Ruby 3.2 or greater so is unaffected.

Reference

https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-vfg9-r3fq-jvx4 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/56b2fc3302836405b496e196a8d5fc0195e55049 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/7c1398854d51f9bb193fb79f226647351133d08a https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/8e057db25bff1dc7a98e9ae72e0083825b9ac545 https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f4dc83d8926509d0958ec21fcdbc2e7df3d32ce2