CVE-2021-22902 PUBLISHED

The actionpack ruby gem (a framework for handling and responding to web requests in Rails) before 6.0.3.7, 6.1.3.2 suffers from a possible denial of service vulnerability in the Mime type parser of Action Dispatch. Carefully crafted Accept headers can cause the mime type parser in Action Dispatch to do catastrophic backtracking in the regular expression engine.

EPSS 1.06% · 77.5th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.06%
77.5th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:25.10rails2:7.2.2.1+dfsg-7, 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-7, 0
Ubuntu:24.04:LTSrails0, 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-3, 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2build1
Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTSrails0, 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu1, 2:5.2.3+dfsg-3
Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTSrails2:4.2.6-1ubuntu0.1~esm1, 2:4.2.6-1, 2:4.2.5.2-2
Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTSrails0, 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2, 2:6.1.4.1+dfsg-8ubuntu2
Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTSrails2:4.2.9-2, 2:4.2.10-0ubuntu4, 2:4.2.10-0ubuntu4+esm1

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