HIGH 7.5 RubyGems
Rack vulnerable to Denial of Service
GHSA-hg78-4f6x-99wq · CVE-2018-16470
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Description
There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. Specially crafted requests can cause the multipart parser to enter a pathological state, causing the parser to use CPU resources disproportionate to the request size.
References
- ADVISORY https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16470
- WEB https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
- PACKAGE https://github.com/rack/rack
- WEB https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2018-16470.yml
- WEB https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rubyonrails-security/U_x-YkfuVTg/xhvYAmp6AAAJ
- WEB https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ruby-security-ann/Dz4sRl-ktKk
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