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VMware Photon OS: CVE-2024-26142

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Feb 27, 2024
Added
Jul 2, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Rails is a web-application framework. Starting in version 7.1.0, there is a possible ReDoS vulnerability in the Accept header parsing routines of Action Dispatch. This vulnerability is patched in 7.1.3.1. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rails applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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