High 7.5Published Feb 9, 2023

CVE-2023-22792A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1.

Updated under an hour ago (Oct 26, 2026, 8:30 AM ET)

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A regular expression based DoS vulnerability in Action Dispatch <6.0.6.1,< 6.1.7.1, and <7.0.4.1. Specially crafted cookies, in combination with a specially crafted X_FORWARDED_HOST header can cause the regular expression engine to enter a state of catastrophic backtracking. This can cause the process to use large amounts of CPU and memory, leading to a possible DoS vulnerability All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the workarounds immediately.

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH (v3.1, NVD)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-400, CWE-1333
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by: Not given
NVD analysis: Modified
Record last updated: Oct 24, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 24, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

rubyonrails rails rubyonrails:rails	from 3.0.0 before 6.0.6.1; from 6.1.0 before 6.1.7.1; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.4.1	NVD

References

https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22792-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability-in-action-dispatch/82115patch, vendor-advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240202-0007/
https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372

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