CVE-2022-44571
Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Content-Disposition parsing
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 3.1%
Description
There is a denial of service vulnerability in the Content-Disposition parsingcomponent of Rack fixed in 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1, 3.0.0.1. This could allow an attacker to craft an input that can cause Content-Disposition header parsing in Rackto take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial ofservice attack vector. This header is used typically used in multipartparsing. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtuallyall Rails applications) are impacted.
How to fix CVE-2022-44571
To remediate CVE-2022-44571, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.1.4-3+deb11u1 or later
- —upgrade to 2.0.9.2 or later
Is CVE-2022-44571 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 3.1%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (2)
- from 0, < 2.1.4-3+deb11u1
- >= 2.0.0, < 2.0.9.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |