Rack vulnerable to Denial of Service
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.
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2018-16470US | high7.5 | — | ||
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… | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rackPACKAGE
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2018-16470.ymlWEB
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/U_x-YkfuVTg/xhvYAmp6AAAJWEB
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/Dz4sRl-ktKkWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16470ADVISORY
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