CVE-2018-16470
HIGH7.5EPSS 0.18%Rack vulnerable to Denial of Service
Published: 11/15/2018Modified: 2/16/2024
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.
Affected packages (1)
- RubyGems/rack>= 2.0.4, < 2.0.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16470
- PATCHhttps://github.com/rack/rack
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2018-16470.yml
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/U_x-YkfuVTg/xhvYAmp6AAAJ
- WEBhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/Dz4sRl-ktKk