CVE-2024-25126
What it is
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted content type headers can cause Rack’s media type parser to take much longer than expected, leading to a possible denial of service vulnerability (ReDos 2nd degree polynomial). This vulnerability is patched in 3.0.9.1 and 2.2.8.1.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. Limited direct impact.
- Exploit odds
- 35.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS). Higher than most.
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 35.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 5.3 MEDIUM (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 35.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-1333
- Record status
- Analyzed
Affected
- Rack < 2.2.8.1
- Rack < 3.0.9.1
- Debian Linux 10.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 5.3
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- Low
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cx
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cx
References
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cx
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-25126.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240510-0005/
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cx
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-25126.yml
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240510-0005/