What is CVE-2023-22797?

CVE-2023-22797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Actionpack Project, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-02-09.

How severe is CVE-2023-22797?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

Open Redirect in Actionpack Project

CVE-2023-22797

An open redirect vulnerability is fixed in Rails 7.0.4.1 with the new protection against open redirects from calling redirect_to with untrusted user input. In prior versions the developer was fully responsible for only providing trusted input. However the check introduced could allow an attacker to bypass with a carefully crafted URL resulting in an open redirect vulnerability.

Vulnerability class: Open Redirect

Published 2023-02-09 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (46.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 46th percentile — 46.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Actionpack Project
Rubyonrails Rails
Https://github.com/rails/rails — versions 7.0.4.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-601 — URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect)

References

discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-22799-possible-redos-based-dos-vulnerability… (Not Applicable)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-22797?: CVE-2023-22797 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Actionpack Project, classified under URL Redirection to Untrusted Site (Open Redirect). CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2023-02-09.
How severe is CVE-2023-22797?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.