GHSA-c6qg-cjj8-47qpLow

Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack's header parsing

Published
March 15, 2023
Last Modified
January 9, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (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.

🎯 Affected products2

  • rubygems/rack:>= 2.0.0, < 2.2.6.4
  • rubygems/rack:>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.6.1

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