SB2024030428 - Denial of service in Rack
Published: March 4, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024030428
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-26146)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the header parsing. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-54rr-7fvw-6x8f
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/30b8e39a578b25d4bdcc082c1c52c6f164b59716
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/6c5d90bdcec0949f7ba06db62fb740dab394b582
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/a227cd793778c7c3a827d32808058571569cda6f
- https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/e4c117749ba24a66f8ec5a08eddf68deeb425ccd
- https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-rack-header-parsing/84942
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2024-26146.yml