rails — security advisory
A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1. Specially crafted cookies, in combination with a specially crafted X_FORWARDED_HOST header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
- Products
- rails
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-22792
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 09:54 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1. Specially crafted cookies, in combination with a specially crafted X_FORWARDED_HOST header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-22792
rails
Fixed versions: 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
rails
Fixed versions: 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
rails
Fixed versions: 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-1
Complete source record
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