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CVE-2024-25126
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).
HIGH 7.5EPSS 35.4%
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EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 35.4%, higher than 98% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 35.38% probability · 98th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-1333
- Affected
- rack/rack · debian/debian linux
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cxExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-25126.ymlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00022.htmlMailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240510-0005/Third Party Advisory
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-content-type-parsing/84941Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6efb2ceea003c4b195815a614e00438cbd543462Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d9c163a443b8cadf4711d84bd2c58cb9ef89cf49Patch
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-22f2-v57c-j9cxExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-25126.ymlExploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/04/msg00022.htmlMailing List
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240510-0005/Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.