Multiple vulnerabilities in Rack for Ruby



Published: 2023-02-07
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 3
CVE-ID CVE-2022-44572
CVE-2022-44571
CVE-2022-44570
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 3 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU71978

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-44572

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing Content-Disposition header in lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Rack: 2.0 - 3.0.4

External links

http://github.com/rack/rack/commit/a493640cd89aec9c148bc9d22c5f938ca9ed0dfa
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164722
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207596


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU71977

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-44571

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing Content-Disposition header in lib/rack/multipart/parser.rb. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Rack: 2.0 - 3.0.4

External links

http://github.com/rack/rack/commit/b79bb5ac6e7478aa02f624bd9ef00b25c2502af5
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164714
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207599


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

3) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU71974

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-44570

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the get_byte_ranges() function in lib/rack/utils.rb when parsing the Range header. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Rack: 2.0 - 3.0.4

External links

http://github.com/rack/rack/commit/7a9d76a7850455a5ef9403203ea757ed110e7806
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2164719
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1207597


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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