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ruby-rack — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2022-44572

A denial of service vulnerability in the multipart parsing component of Rack fixed in 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1 and 3.0.0.1 could allow an attacker tocraft input that can cause RFC2183 multipart boundary parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted.

Products
ruby-rack
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.2.4-3
CVEs
CVE-2022-44572
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2022-44572

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Feb 2023, 20:15 UTC

A denial of service vulnerability in the multipart parsing component of Rack fixed in 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.4.1 and 3.0.0.1 could allow an attacker tocraft input that can cause RFC2183 multipart boundary parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2022-44572

ruby-rack

Fixed versions: 2.2.4-3

ruby-rack

Fixed versions: 2.2.4-3

ruby-rack

Fixed versions: 2.2.4-3

Complete source record
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