| Name | CVE-2021-22880 |
| Description | The PostgreSQL adapter in Active Record before 6.1.2.1, 6.0.3.5, 5.2.4.5 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-4929-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| rails (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2:4.1.8-1+deb8u9 | fixed |
| stretch (security), stretch (lts), stretch | 2:4.2.7.1-1+deb9u5 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 2:6.0.3.7+dfsg-2+deb11u2 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-2~deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2:6.1.7.3+dfsg-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| rails | source | jessie | (not affected) | | | |
| rails | source | stretch | (not affected) | | | |
| rails | source | buster | 2:5.2.2.1+dfsg-1+deb10u3 | | DSA-4929-1 | |
| rails | source | (unstable) | 2:6.0.3.5+dfsg-1 | | | |
Notes
[stretch] - rails <not-affected> (Vulnerable asterisk in regex added later)
https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2021-22880-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-active-record-postgresql-adapter/77129
https://hackerone.com/reports/1023899
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/eddda4d8fb6b6508e11196b14494ceac37b57339 (main)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/879d02107b5b3eb7aeaad1cd1f259bb41f17286b (v6.0.3.5)
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/bf0ef9df1793046241c26b3fb92fac551d1628b4 (5.2-stable)
[jessie] - rails <not-affected> (money.rb added later, original code in oid.rb with regex plus, not asterisk)