CVE-2025-61772 PUBLISHED

Rack's multipart parser buffers unbounded per-part headers, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 30.09.2025 Published: 07.10.2025 Updated: 07.10.2025

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. In versions prior to 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2, Rack::Multipart::Parser can accumulate unbounded data when a multipart part’s header block never terminates with the required blank line (CRLFCRLF). The parser keeps appending incoming bytes to memory without a size cap, allowing a remote attacker to exhaust memory and cause a denial of service (DoS). Attackers can send incomplete multipart headers to trigger high memory use, leading to process termination (OOM) or severe slowdown. The effect scales with request size limits and concurrency. All applications handling multipart uploads may be affected. Versions 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2 cap per-part header size (e.g., 64 KiB). As a workaround, restrict maximum request sizes at the proxy or web server layer (e.g., Nginx client_max_body_size).

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor rack
Product rack
Versions
  • Version < 2.2.19 is affected
  • Version >= 3.1, < 3.1.17 is affected
  • Version >= 3.2, < 3.2.2 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE