GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-cj83-2ww7-mvq7 Rack ReDoS Vulnerability in HTTP Accept Headers Parsing

MEDIUM Published 2024-07-03 Modified 2024-11-05 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2024-39316
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rack
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-1333
Reviewed
2024-07-03

Affected packages

• RubyGems rack: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.5 → fixed in 3.1.5

Description

Summary A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the `Rack::Request::Helpers` module when parsing HTTP Accept headers. This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker sending specially crafted `Accept-Encoding` or `Accept-Language` headers, causing the server to spend excessive time processing the request and leading to a Denial of Service (DoS). Details The fix for https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-54rr-7fvw-6x8f was not applied to the main branch and thus while the issue was fixed for the Rack v3.0 release series, it was not fixed in the v3.1 release series until v3.1.5.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2024-39316 Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness

References