GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-hg78-4f6x-99wq Rack vulnerable to Denial of Service

HIGH Published 2018-11-15 Modified 2023-08-28 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2018-16470
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
rack
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-400
Reviewed
2020-06-16

Affected packages

• RubyGems rack: >= 2.0.4, < 2.0.6 → fixed in 2.0.6

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.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2018-16470 There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References