🛡️ CVE-2024-41128 — actionpack

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 NVD
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Possible ReDoS vulnerability in query parameter filtering in Action Dispatch

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

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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

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The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Workarounds

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Users on Ruby 3.2 are unaffected by this issue.

Credits

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Thanks to [scyoon](https://hackerone.com/scyoon) for the report and patches!

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-41128 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2024-41128 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • actionpack (from 7.2.0 up to 7.2.1.1)
  • rails
  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 15 October 2024 and last revised on 31 October 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
access.redhat.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)

CVE-2024-41128 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity Medium
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-10-15
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-10-31
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
actionpack 7.2.0 7.2.1.1
rails — —
unknown — —

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