CVE-2021-22904

NameCVE-2021-22904
DescriptionThe 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDLA-2655-1, DSA-4929-1
Debian Bugs988214

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rails (PTS)bookworm, bookworm (security)2:6.1.7.10+dfsg-1~deb12u2fixed
trixie (security), trixie2:7.2.2.2+dfsg-2~deb13u1fixed
forky, sid2:7.2.3.2+dfsg-2fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
railssourcestretch2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u5DLA-2655-1
railssourcebuster2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u3DSA-4929-1
railssource(unstable)2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-1988214

Notes

https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/eab8c20f3ef6a022c4c11b439b1b22cef1768d5e (main)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/d861fa8ade353390c4419b53a6c6b41f3005b1f2 (v6.0.3.7)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/3d9e9fdf14e044b3ba66f909582c228a9d4ffb5c (v5.2.4.6)
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