Action Pack up to 6.1.7.7/7.0.8.3/7.1.3.3/7.2.0.beta1 on Ruby on Rails Content-Type permission

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A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Action Pack up to 6.1.7.7/7.0.8.3/7.1.3.3/7.2.0.beta1 on Ruby on Rails. The affected element is an unknown function of the component Content-Type Handler. The manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2024-28103. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Action Pack up to 6.1.7.7/7.0.8.3/7.1.3.3/7.2.0.beta1 on Ruby on Rails. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Content-Type Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Action Pack is a framework for handling and responding to web requests. Since 6.1.0, the application configurable Permissions-Policy is only served on responses with an HTML related Content-Type. This vulnerability is fixed in 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.2, and 7.1.3.3.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-28103 since 03/04/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 232107 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-28103), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 6.1.7.8, 7.0.8.2 or 7.1.3.3 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch 35858f1d9d57f6c4050a8d9ab754bd5d088b4523 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (232107). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Name

• Action Pack

Version

• 6.1.7.0
• 6.1.7.1
• 6.1.7.2
• 6.1.7.3
• 6.1.7.4
• 6.1.7.5
• 6.1.7.6
• 6.1.7.7
• 7.0.8.0
• 7.0.8.1
• 7.0.8.2
• 7.0.8.3
• 7.1.3.0
• 7.1.3.1
• 7.1.3.2
• 7.1.3.3
• 7.2.0.beta1

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• open-source

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