GHSA-c6qg-cjj8-47qp
Vulnerability from github
Published
2023-03-15 21:36
Modified
2025-01-09 15:36
Summary
Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack's header parsing
Details

There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing component of Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-27539.

Versions Affected: >= 2.0.0 Not affected: None. Fixed Versions: 2.2.6.4, 3.0.6.1

Impact

Carefully crafted input can cause header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse headers using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted.

Workarounds

Setting Regexp.timeout in Ruby 3.2 is a possible workaround.

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  "id": "GHSA-c6qg-cjj8-47qp",
  "modified": "2025-01-09T15:36:58Z",
  "published": "2023-03-15T21:36:02Z",
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      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/04/msg00017.html"
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  "summary": "Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack\u0027s header parsing"
}


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