CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-61919
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-10-10
- Last modified
- 2026-10-19
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
Description
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.20, 3.1.18, and 3.2.3, `Rack::Request#POST` reads the entire request body into memory for `Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded`, calling `rack.input.read(nil)` without enforcing a length or cap. Large request bodies can therefore be buffered completely into process memory before parsing, leading to denial of service (DoS) through memory exhaustion. Users should upgrade to Rack version 2.2.20, 3.1.18, or 3.2.3, anu of which enforces form parameter limits using `query_parser.bytesize_limit`, preventing unbounded reads of `application/x-www-form-urlencoded` bodies. Additionally, enforce strict maximum body size at the proxy or web server layer (e.g., Nginx `client_max_body_size`, Apache `LimitRequestBody`).
Affected configurations
• rack rack (< 2.2.20)
• rack rack (>= 3.0.0 < 3.1.18)
• rack rack (>= 3.2.0 < 3.2.3)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/4e2c903991a790ee211a3021808ff4fd6fe82881 Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/cbd541e8a3d0c5830a3c9a30d3718ce2e124f9db Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/e179614c4a653283286f5f046428cbb85f21146f Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-6xw4-3v39-52mm Mitigation, Third Party Advisory