CRITICAL 9.8 RubyGems

Puma HTTP Request/Response Smuggling vulnerability

GHSA-68xg-gqqm-vgj8 · CVE-2023-40175

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Description

Impact

Prior to version 6.3.1, puma exhibited incorrect behavior when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies and zero-length Content-Length headers in a way that allowed HTTP request smuggling.

The following vulnerabilities are addressed by this advisory:

  • Incorrect parsing of trailing fields in chunked transfer encoding bodies
  • Parsing of blank/zero-length Content-Length headers

Patches

The vulnerability has been fixed in 6.3.1 and 5.6.7.

Workarounds

No known workarounds.

References

HTTP Request Smuggling

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