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CVE-2026-34827GHSA-V6X5-CG8R-VV6X

Rack: Algorithmic-Complexity DoS in Rack::Multipart::Parser

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 3.1.21, 3.2.6
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: yes
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. From versions 3.0.0.beta1 to before 3.1.21, and 3.2.0 to before 3.2.6, Rack::Multipart::Parser#handle_mime_head parses quoted multipart parameters such as Content-Disposition: form-data; name="..." using repeated String#index searches combined with String#slice! prefix deletion. For escape-heavy quoted values, this causes super-linear processing. An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted multipart/form-data request containing many parts with long backslash-escaped parameter values to trigger excessive CPU usage during multipart parsing. This results in a denial of service condition in Rack applications that accept multipart form data. This issue has been patched in versions 3.1.21 and 3.2.6.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • rack rack

    From 3.0.0.beta1 · fixed in 3.1.21; From 3.2.0 · fixed in 3.2.6

  • rackRubyGems

    From 3.0.0.beta1 · fixed in 3.1.21

  • rackRubyGems

    From 3.2.0 · fixed in 3.2.6

References 1

GitHub · rack/rack