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GMS-2023-769: Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack’s header parsing

March 15, 2023

There is a denial of service vulnerability in the header parsing component of Rack. Carefully crafted input can cause header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse headers using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted. Workarounds Setting Regexp.timeout in Ruby 3.2 is a possible workaround.

References

  • discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2023-27539-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-racks-header-parsing/82466
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-c6qg-cjj8-47qp
  • github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2023-27539.yml
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-27539

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.0.0 before 2.2.6.4, all versions starting from 3.0.0 before 3.0.6.1

Fixed versions

  • 2.2.6.4
  • 3.0.6.1

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.2.6.4, 3.0.6.1 or above.

Source file

gem/rack/GMS-2023-769.yml

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