CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-16470

7.5 HIGH Published 2018-11-13 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-11-13
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. Specially crafted requests can cause the multipart parser to enter a pathological state, causing the parser to use CPU resources disproportionate to the request size.

Affected configurations

• rack project rack 2.0.4 • rack project rack 2.0.5

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References