GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-c6qg-cjj8-47qp Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack's header parsing
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-27539
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- rack
- Severity
- Low
- Reviewed
- 2023-03-15
Affected packages
• RubyGems rack: >= 2.0.0, < 2.2.6.4 → fixed in 2.2.6.4
• RubyGems rack: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.6.1 → fixed in 3.0.6.1
Description
There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing component of Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-27539.
Versions Affected: >= 2.0.0 Not affected: None. Fixed Versions: 2.2.6.4, 3.0.6.1
Impact
Carefully crafted input can cause header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse headers using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted.
Workarounds
Setting Regexp.timeout in Ruby 3.2 is a possible workaround.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-27539 There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing component of Rack. vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27539 advisory
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/231ef369ad0b542575fb36c74fcfcfabcf6c530c web
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/ee7919ea04303717858be1c3f16b406adc6d8cff web
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-27539-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-racks-header-parsing/82466 web
- https://github.com/rack/rack package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2023-27539.yml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00017.html web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0016 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5530 web