Rack Header Parsing leads to Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability
# Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Header Parsing There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing routines in Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-26146. Versions Affected: All. Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 2.0.9.4, 2.1.4.4, 2.2.8.1, 3.0.9.1 Impact ------ Carefully crafted headers can cause header parsing in Rack to take longer than expected resulting in a possible denial of service issue. Accept and Forwarded headers are impacted. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rack applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Releases -------- The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. * 2-0-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.0 series * 2-1-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.1 series * 2-2-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.2 series * 3-0-header-redos.patch - Patch for 3.0 series Credits ------- Thanks to [svalkanov](https://hackerone.com/svalkanov) for reporting this and providing patches!
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| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2024-26146US | high7.5 | — | ||
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted headers can cause header parsing in Rack to take longer than expected resulting in a possible denial of service issue… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-header-parsing/84942WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rackPACKAGE
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/30b8e39a578b25d4bdcc082c1c52c6f164b59716WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6c5d90bdcec0949f7ba06db62fb740dab394b582WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/a227cd793778c7c3a827d32808058571569cda6fWEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/e4c117749ba24a66f8ec5a08eddf68deeb425ccdWEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-54rr-7fvw-6x8fWEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-26146.ymlWEB
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