VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-44571

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability1.50%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-02-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Primary references