CVE-2021-22902

medium
Published 2021-05-05 · Modified 2024-02-16
CVSS v3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-22902

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-22902.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed14.1.0-1
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1
debian debianbullseyefixed2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1
debian debianforkyfixed2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1
debian debiansidfixed2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1
debian debiantrixiefixed2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsactionpack!< 6.0.0||<~> 6.0.3, >= 6.0.3.7~> 6.0.3, >= 6.0.3.7
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=6.0.0,<6.0.3.76.0.3.7
ruby RubyGemsactionpack>=6.1.0,<6.1.3.26.1.3.2

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.