CVE-2022-44571
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,…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 25% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
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By hackerone
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 months later
· 18 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.5% · top 25% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
https://github.com/rack/rack
- affected 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1, 3.0.0.1
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsrackGHSA-93pm-5p5f-3ghx (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-44571-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-disposition-parsing/82126 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- DSA-5530 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0013/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2023-0420 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-93pm-5p5f-3ghx (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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