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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

CVE-2022-23633

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Under certain circumstances, response bodies will not be closed. In the event, a response is *not* notified of a `close`, `ActionDispatch::Executor` will not know to reset thread-local state for the next request. This can lead to data being leaked to subsequent requests. This has been fixed in Rails 7.0.2.2, 6.1.4.6, 6.0.4.6, and 5.2.6.2. Upgrading is highly recommended, but to work around this problem a middleware described in GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9 can be used. This issue affects versions prior from 5.x prior to 5.2.6.2, 6.x prior to 6.0.4.6, 6.1.x prior to 6.1.4.6, and 7.x prior to 7.0.2.2.

  • HIGH
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE

CWE-200 - Information Exposure

An information exposure vulnerability is categorized as an information flow (IF) weakness, which can potentially allow unauthorized access to otherwise classified information in the application, such as confidential personal information (demographics, financials, health records, etc.), business secrets, and the application's internal environment.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published