CVE-2026-34826: Rack's multipart byte range processing allows denial of service via excessive overlapping ranges
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Rack::Utils.get_byte_ranges parses the HTTP Range header without limiting the number of individual byte ranges. Although the existing fix for CVE-2024-26141 rejects ranges whose total byte coverage exceeds the file size, it does not restrict the count of ranges. An attacker can supply many small overlapping ranges such as 0-0,0-0,0-0,... to trigger disproportionate CPU, memory, I/O, and bandwidth consumption per request.
This results in a denial of service condition in Rack file-serving paths that process multipart byte range responses.
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