Input validation error in Ruby on Rails - CVE-2023-22792

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Input validation error in Ruby on Rails - CVE-2023-22792

Published: January 18, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU71308
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-22792
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in Action Dispatch. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

Ruby on Rails
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Availability
openSUSE Leap
openEuler
Fedora
ruby2.1-rubygem-actionpack-4_2
ruby2.5-rubygem-actionpack-5_1
ruby2.5-rubygem-actionpack-doc-5_1
rubygem-actionpack
rubygem-actionpack-doc
rubygem-actioncable-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionmailbox-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionmailer-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionpack-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actiontext-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionview-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-activejob-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-acti
Red Hat Satellite

How to mitigate CVE-2023-22792

Install updates from vendor's website.

Ruby on Rails - addressed in versions 6.1.7.1, 7.0.4.1
ruby2.1-rubygem-actionpack-4_2 - update to 4.2.9-7.15.1
ruby2.5-rubygem-actionpack-5_1 - update to 5.1.4-150000.3.15.1
ruby2.5-rubygem-actionpack-doc-5_1 - update to 5.1.4-150000.3.15.1
rubygem-actionpack - update to 5.2.4.4-4
rubygem-actionpack-doc - update to 5.2.4.4-4
Red Hat Satellite - update to 6.14
rubygem-actioncable-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionmailbox-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionmailer-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionpack-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actiontext-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-actionview-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-activejob-7.0.4.2-1.fc38 rubygem-acti - update to 7.0.4.2-1.fc38

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