CVE-2018-16470
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-11-13 23:00
Modified
2024-08-05 10:24
Severity ?
Summary
There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. 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
support@hackerone.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3172
support@hackerone.comhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/rubyonrails-security/U_x-YkfuVTg/xhvYAmp6AAAJ
Impacted products
RackRack
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