A DoS vulnerability exists in Rack
CVE-2023-27530
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 2.0%, top 16% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 76.3%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
March 10, 2023
Last Modified
February 13, 2025
References (8)
- support@hackeronehttps://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-27530-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-multipart-mime-parsing/82388
- support@hackeronehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00017.html
- support@hackeronehttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0015/
- support@hackeronehttps://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5530
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-27530-possible-dos-vulnerability-in-multipart-mime-parsing/82388
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00017.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20231208-0015/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5530
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2023-27530(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Patch Availability(9)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | ruby-rack (2.2.4-3ubuntu0.2) @ mantic | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | ruby-rack (1.6.4-3ubuntu0.2+esm5) @ xenial | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | ruby-rack (2.1.4-5ubuntu1.1) @ jammy | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | rubygem-rack-0:2.2.7-1.el8sat | 2023-11-08 | redhat |
| redhat | pcs-0:0.10.12-6.el8_6.4 | 2023-05-31 | redhat |
| redhat | pcs-0:0.10.15-4.el8_8.1 | 2023-05-16 | redhat |
| redhat | pcs-0:0.11.4-7.el9_2 | 2023-05-09 | redhat |
| redhat | pcs-0:0.11.1-10.el9_0.4 | 2023-04-25 | redhat |
| redhat | pcs-0:0.10.8-1.el8_4.4 | 2023-04-25 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
RubyGems(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| rack | 3.0.0 ... 3.0.4.1 (6 versions) | 3.0.4.2 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(8)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2023:1961MODERATE2023-03-08
RHSA-2023:1961 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:1981MODERATE2023-03-08
RHSA-2023:1981 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:2652MODERATE2023-03-08
RHSA-2023:2652 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:3082MODERATE2023-03-08
RHSA-2023:3082 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:3403MODERATE2023-03-08
RHSA-2023:3403 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6837-1MEDIUM
Rack vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-6905-1MEDIUM
Rack vulnerabilities
- UbuntuUSN-7036-1MEDIUM
Rack vulnerabilities
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 8× in last 7d / 45× in last 30d)
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