# CVE-2022-23633: Exposure of sensitive information in Action Pack

- Also known as: GHSA-WH98-P28R-VRC9
- Severity: CVSS 7.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 7.0.2.1, 6.1.4.5, 6.0.4.5, 5.2.6.1, 5.2.6.2, and 3 more
- Published: 2022-02-11 · Updated: 2024-08-03

## Affected

- rails: from 7.0.0.0, fixed in 7.0.2.1; from 6.1.0.0, fixed in 6.1.4.5; from 6.0.0.0, fixed in 6.0.4.5; from 5.0.0, fixed in 5.2.6.1
- actionpack (RubyGems): from 5.0.0.0, fixed in 5.2.6.2
- actionpack (RubyGems): from 6.0.0.0, fixed in 6.0.4.6
- actionpack (RubyGems): from 6.1.0.0, fixed in 6.1.4.6
- actionpack (RubyGems): from 7.0.0.0, fixed in 7.0.2.2

## Description

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 7.0.2.1, 6.1.4.5, 6.0.4.5, and 5.2.6.1. Upgrading is highly recommended, but to work around this problem a middleware described in GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9 can be used.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on Ruby on Rails, upgrade to a fixed version (7.0.2.1, 6.1.4.5, 6.0.4.5, 5.2.6.1, 5.2.6.2) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/rails/rails/security/advisories/GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9
- https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/f9a2ad03943d5c2ba54e1d45f155442b519c75da
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/02/11/5
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00002.html
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5372
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240119-0013/

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