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CVE-2021-22880: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

February 11, 2021 (updated August 5, 2021)

The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record suffers from a regular expression denial of service (REDoS) vulnerability. Carefully crafted input can cause the input validation in the money type of the PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record to spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This only impacts Rails applications that are using PostgreSQL along with money type columns that take user input.

References

  • discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22880-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-active-record-postgresql-adapter/77129
  • hackerone.com/reports/1023899
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MO5OJ3F4ZL3UXVLJO6ECANRVZBNRS2IH/
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/XQ3NS4IBYE2I3MVMGAHFZBZBIZGHXHT3/
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22880
  • security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210805-0009/
  • www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4929

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 4.2.0 before 5.2.4.5, all versions starting from 6.0.0 before 6.0.3.5, all versions starting from 6.1.0 before 6.1.2.1, all versions starting from 32 up to 33

Fixed versions

  • 5.2.4.5
  • 6.0.3.5
  • 6.1.2.1

Solution

Upgrade to versions 5.2.4.5, 6.0.3.5, 6.1.2.1 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

gem/activerecord/CVE-2021-22880.yml

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