rubygem-rack: denial of service in Content-Disposition parsing
Published Feb 9, 2023
7.5
HIGHCVSS 3.1
EPSS 1.50%
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.
Affected products
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Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
rubygem-rack-0:2.2.7-1.el8sat
Fixed · RHSA-2023:6818
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
rubygem-rack-0:2.2.7-1.el8sat
Fixed · RHSA-2023:6818
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | rubygem-rack-0:2.2.7-1.el8sat | Fixed | RHSA-2023:6818 |
| Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | rubygem-rack-0:2.2.7-1.el8sat | Fixed | RHSA-2023:6818 |
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v2.0 score for this CVE.
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 3, 2026.
Score over time
2023–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (17 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2026 | 1.50% (0.01503) | 73.43th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 1.50% (0.01503) | 70.89th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 3.15% (0.03145) | 86.42th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 1, 2025 | 2.07% (0.02072) | 83.47th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Aug 16, 2025 | 3.15% (0.03145) | 86.37th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 2.14% (0.02139) | 82.67th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 4.79% (0.04793) | 82.07th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 2.18% (0.02183) | 83.21th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.15% (0.00154) | 53.02th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 13, 2024 | 0.10% (0.00100) | 40.24th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 16, 2024 | 0.09% (0.00089) | 36.45th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 10, 2024 | 0.06% (0.00061) | 24.06th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Dec 9, 2023 | 0.05% (0.00051) | 17.63th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 8, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00044) | 10.29th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.04% (0.00045) | 12.66th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.89th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 10, 2023 | 0.89% (0.00885) | 27.49th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (11)
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-44571 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164714 Issue Tracking
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-44571-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-disposition-parsing/82126 PatchVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-93pm-5p5f-3ghx Advisory
- https://github.com/rack/rack/releases/tag/v3.0.4.1
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2022-44571.yml
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/tree/master/gems/rack/CVE-2022-44571.yml
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44571
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0013/
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-44571
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5530 vendor-advisory
Change history (0)
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