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Rails Active Storage has a possible DoS vulnerability when in proxy mode via Range requests

GHSA-r46p-8f7g-vvvg · CVE-2026-33174

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Description

Impact

When serving files through Active Storage's Blobs::ProxyController, the controller loads the entire requested byte range into memory before sending it. A request with a large or unbounded Range header (e.g. bytes=0-) could cause the server to allocate memory proportional to the file size, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability through memory exhaustion.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by Hackerone user pirikara

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