actionpack 7.2.0.beta1

3 security vulnerabilities found in version 7.2.0.beta1

Possible ReDoS vulnerability in HTTP Token authentication in Action Controller

medium severity CVE-2024-47887
medium severity CVE-2024-47887
Patched versions: ~> 6.1.7.9, ~> 7.0.8.5, ~> 7.1.4, >= 7.1.4.1, >= 7.2.1.1
Unaffected versions: < 4.0.0

There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in Action Controller's HTTP Token authentication. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-47887.

Impact

For applications using HTTP Token authentication via authenticate_or_request_with_http_token or similar, a carefully crafted header may cause header parsing to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or apply the relevant patch immediately.

Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Rails 8.0.0.beta1 depends on Ruby 3.2 or greater so is unaffected.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue.

Credits

Thanks to scyoon for reporting

Possible ReDoS vulnerability in query parameter filtering in Action Dispatch

medium severity CVE-2024-41128
medium severity CVE-2024-41128
Patched versions: ~> 6.1.7.9, ~> 7.0.8.5, ~> 7.1.4, >= 7.1.4.1, >= 7.2.1.1
Unaffected versions: < 3.1.0

There is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the query parameter filtering routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-41128.

Impact

Carefully crafted query parameters can cause query parameter filtering to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability. All users running an affected release should either upgrade or apply the relevant patch immediately.

Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Rails 8.0.0.beta1 depends on Ruby 3.2 or greater so is unaffected.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue.

Credits

Thanks to scyoon for the report and patches!

Missing security headers in Action Pack on non-HTML responses

medium severity CVE-2024-28103
medium severity CVE-2024-28103
Patched versions: ~> 6.1.7, >= 6.1.7.8, ~> 7.0.8, >= 7.0.8.4, ~> 7.1.3, >= 7.1.3.4, >= 7.2.0.beta2
Unaffected versions: < 6.1.0

Permissions-Policy is Only Served on HTML Content-Type

The application configurable Permissions-Policy is only served on responses with an HTML related Content-Type.

This has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-28103.

Versions Affected: >= 6.1.0 Not affected: < 6.1.0 Fixed Versions: 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.4, and 7.1.3.4

Impact

Responses with a non-HTML Content-Type are not serving the configured Permissions-Policy. There are certain non-HTML Content-Types that would benefit from having the Permissions-Policy enforced.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

N/A

Patches

To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the supported release series in accordance with our maintenance policy regarding security issues. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset.

  • 6-1-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 6.1 series
  • 7-0-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 7.0 series
  • 7-1-include-permissions-policy-header-on-non-html.patch - Patch for 7.1 series

Credits

Thank you shinkbr for reporting this!

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