Ruby RACK 3.1.x < 3.1.16 DoS

high Nessus Plugin ID 237897

Synopsis

The remote host has an application installed that is affected by a DoS vulnerability.

Description

The version of the RACK Ruby library installed on the remote host is 3.1.x prior to 3.1.16 . It is, therefore, affected by a DoS vulnerability where an attacker can create a crafted input can cause Content-Disposition header parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. This header is typically used in multipart parsing. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Upgrade to RACK version 3.1.16 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 237897

File Name: ruby_gem_rack_CVE_2025_49007.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: windows, macosx, unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 6/6/2025

Updated: 6/6/2025

Configuration: Enable thorough checks (optional)

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-49007

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:ruby:rack

Required KB Items: Host/nix/packages, Host/ruby/modules/enumerated

Patch Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/7/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-49007

IAVB: 2025-B-0088

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