GHSA-54rr-7fvw-6x8f
Rack Header Parsing leads to Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2024-26146
Description
# Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Header Parsing There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing routines in Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-26146. Versions Affected: All. Not affected: None Fixed Versions: 2.0.9.4, 2.1.4.4, 2.2.8.1, 3.0.9.1 Impact ------ Carefully crafted headers can cause header parsing in Rack to take longer than expected resulting in a possible denial of service issue. Accept and Forwarded headers are impacted. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rack applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. Releases -------- The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds ----------- There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. Patches ------- To aid users who aren't able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. * 2-0-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.0 series * 2-1-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.1 series * 2-2-header-redos.patch - Patch for 2.2 series * 3-0-header-redos.patch - Patch for 3.0 series Credits ------- Thanks to [svalkanov](https://hackerone.com/svalkanov) for reporting this and providing patches!
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| RubyGems · rack | introduced 3.0.0, fixed 3.0.9.1 |
| RubyGems · rack | introduced 2.2.0, fixed 2.2.8.1 |
| RubyGems · rack | introduced 2.1.0, fixed 2.1.4.4 |
| RubyGems · rack | introduced 0, fixed 2.0.9.4 |
References
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-54rr-7fvw-6x8f WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-26146 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/30b8e39a578b25d4bdcc082c1c52c6f164b59716 WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6c5d90bdcec0949f7ba06db62fb740dab394b582 WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/a227cd793778c7c3a827d32808058571569cda6f WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/e4c117749ba24a66f8ec5a08eddf68deeb425ccd WEB
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-header-parsing/84942 WEB
- https://github.com/rack/rack PACKAGE
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-26146.yml WEB
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |