CVE-2018-16470: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

November 13, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack. 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

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16470

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