ADVISORIES
GEM
FRAMEWORK
UNAFFECTED VERSIONS
- < 4.0.0
PATCHED VERSIONS
- ~> 6.1.7.9
- ~> 7.0.8.5
- ~> 7.1.4.1
- >= 7.2.1.1
DESCRIPTION
There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in Action Controller's HTTP Token authentication. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-47887.
Impact
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 or apply the relevant
patch immediately.
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.
Releases
The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.
Workarounds
Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue.
Credits
Thanks to scyoon for reporting