GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-47m2-26rw-j2jw ReDoS Vulnerability in Rack::Multipart handle_mime_head

MEDIUM Published 2025-06-05 Modified 2025-06-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2025-49007
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rack
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Weaknesses
CWE-770
Reviewed
2025-06-05

Affected packages

• RubyGems rack: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.16 → fixed in 3.1.16

Description

Summary There is a denial of service vulnerability in the Content-Disposition parsing component of Rack. This is very similar to the previous security issue CVE-2022-44571. Details Carefully crafted input can cause Content-Disposition header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. This header is used typically used in multipart parsing. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted. Credits Thanks to scyoon for reporting this to the Rails security team

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2025-49007 Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness

References