CVE-2019-16770 (GCVE-0-2019-16770)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-12-05 19:35 – Updated: 2024-08-05 01:24
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Title
Potential DOS attack in Puma
Summary
In Puma before versions 3.12.2 and 4.3.1, a poorly-behaved client could use keepalive requests to monopolize Puma's reactor and create a denial of service attack. If more keepalive connections to Puma are opened than there are threads available, additional connections will wait permanently if the attacker sends requests frequently enough. This vulnerability is patched in Puma 4.3.1 and 3.12.2.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
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puma puma Affected: < 4.3.1 , < 4.3.1 (custom)
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