CVE-2026-26961 (GCVE-0-2026-26961)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-02 16:42 – Updated: 2026-04-03 17:58
VLAI
Title
Rack: Multipart Boundary Parsing Ambiguity allowing WAF Bypass
Summary
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, Rack::Multipart::Parser extracts the boundary parameter from multipart/form-data using a greedy regular expression. When a Content-Type header contains multiple boundary parameters, Rack selects the last one rather than the first. In deployments where an upstream proxy, WAF, or intermediary interprets the first boundary parameter, this mismatch can allow an attacker to smuggle multipart content past upstream inspection and have Rack parse a different body structure than the intermediary validated. This issue has been patched in versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6.
Severity
3.7 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-436 - Interpretation Conflict
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
rack rack Affected: < 2.2.23
Affected: >= 3.0.0.beta1, < 3.1.21
Affected: >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.6
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