Vulnerability CVE-2022-44571


Published: 2023-02-09

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.

 References:
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-44571-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-disposition-parsing/82126

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