CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2022-23634

Improper Resource Shutdown or Release

Published: Feb 11, 2022 | Modified: Nov 07, 2023
CVSS 3.x
5.9
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.x
4.3 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. Prior to puma version 5.6.2, puma may not always call close on the response body. Rails, prior to version 7.0.2.2, depended on the response body being closed in order for its CurrentAttributes implementation to work correctly. The combination of these two behaviors (Puma not closing the body + Rails Executor implementation) causes information leakage. This problem is fixed in Puma versions 5.6.2 and 4.3.11. This problem is fixed in Rails versions 7.02.2, 6.1.4.6, 6.0.4.6, and 5.2.6.2. Upgrading to a patched Rails or Puma version fixes the vulnerability.

Weakness

The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Puma Puma * 4.3.11 (excluding)
Puma Puma 5.0.0 (including) 5.6.2 (excluding)
Red Hat Satellite 6.11 for RHEL 7 RedHat tfm-rubygem-puma-0:5.6.2-1.el7sat *
Red Hat Satellite 6.11 for RHEL 8 RedHat rubygem-puma-0:5.6.2-1.el8sat *
Puma Ubuntu esm-apps/focal *
Puma Ubuntu esm-apps/jammy *
Puma Ubuntu focal *
Puma Ubuntu impish *
Puma Ubuntu jammy *
Puma Ubuntu kinetic *
Puma Ubuntu trusty *
Puma Ubuntu xenial *

Potential Mitigations

  • Use a language that does not allow this weakness to occur or provides constructs that make this weakness easier to avoid.
  • For example, languages such as Java, Ruby, and Lisp perform automatic garbage collection that releases memory for objects that have been deallocated.

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