Rack: Denial of Service via Unbounded Multipart File Upload Without Content-Length
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 30/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.65% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 50.8% of all records.
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. No account or password is required. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
- According to CISA the attack is automatable: targets can be found by mass scanning.
- Fixed version: ruby-rack (Debian:12) 2.2.22-0+deb12u2; ruby-rack (Debian:13) 3.1.20-0+deb13u2; ruby-rack (Debian:14) 3.2.6-2.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to ruby-rack (Debian:12) 2.2.22-0+deb12u2; ruby-rack (Debian:13) 3.1.20-0+deb13u2; ruby-rack (Debian:14) 3.2.6-2 or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, Rack::Multipart::Parser only wraps the request body in a BoundedIO when CONTENT_LENGTH is present. When a multipart/form-data request is sent without a Content-Length header, such as with HTTP chunked transfer encoding, multipart parsing continues until end-of-stream with no total size limit. For file parts, the uploaded body is written directly to a temporary file on disk rather than being constrained by the buffered in-memory upload limit. An unauthenticated attacker can therefore stream an arbitrarily large multipart file upload and consume unbounded disk space. This results in a denial of service condition for Rack applications that accept multipart form data. This issue has been patched in versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6.
- Published
- Apr 2, 2026
- Updated
- Jul 24, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.6% · 50th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-400
Report tools
Action score
30
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 30 / 40 · 7.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.6%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- yes
- Technical impact
- partial
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · GitHub_M
- 7.5
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Is your version affected?
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| rack | rack | cpe:2.3:a:rack:rack |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- rack rackbefore 2.2.23
- rack rack3.0.0 and later · before 3.1.21
- rack rack3.2.0 and later · before 3.2.6
Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (GitHub_M). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
rack rack
- < 2.2.23, >= 3.0.0.beta1, < 3.1.21, >= 3.2.0, < 3.2.6affected
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | ruby-rack | before 2.2.22-0+deb12u2 | 2.2.22-0+deb12u2 |
| Debian:13 | ruby-rack | before 3.1.20-0+deb13u2 | 3.1.20-0+deb13u2 |
| Debian:14 | ruby-rack | before 3.2.6-2 | 3.2.6-2 |
| openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | rmt-server | before 3.1.0-160000.1.1 | 3.1.0-160000.1.1 |
| openSUSE:Tumbleweed | rubygem-rack-2.2 | before 2.2.23-1.1 | 2.2.23-1.1 |
| RubyGems | rack | from 3.0.0.beta1 · before 3.1.21 | 3.1.21 |
| RubyGems | rack | from 3.2.0 · before 3.2.6 | 3.2.6 |
| RubyGems | rack | before 2.2.23 | 2.2.23 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Module for Public Cloud 15 SP5 | rmt-server | before 2.27-150500.3.47.1 | 2.27-150500.3.47.1 |
| SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | rmt-server | before 3.1.0-160000.1.1 | 3.1.0-160000.1.1 |
Same product
rack: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2024-25126Rack ReDos in content type parsing (2nd degree polynomial)41Plan
- CVE-2024-26146Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Header Parsing31Monitor
- CVE-2023-27530A DoS vulnerability exists in Rack <v3.0.4.2, <v2.2.6.3, <v2.1.4.3 and <v2.0.9.3 within in the Multipart MIME parsing code in which could al31Monitor
Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-34786Apr 2, 2026 · Rack: Rack::Static header_rules bypass via URL-encoded paths21Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2026-34826Apr 2, 2026 · Rack: Unbounded Range Count in get_byte_ranges Enables DoS30Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-34830Apr 2, 2026 · Rack: Rack::Sendfile regex injection via HTTP_X_ACCEL_MAPPING header allows arbitrary file reads through nginx30Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| debian:ruby-rack | 2.2.22-0+deb12u2 · Debian:12 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:rmt-server | 3.1.0-160000.1.1 · openSUSE:Leap 16.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
| opensuse:rubygem-rack-2.2 | 2.2.23-1.1 · openSUSE:Tumbleweed | Package registry (OSV) |
| RubyGems:rack | 2.2.23 | Package registry (OSV) |
| RubyGems:rack | 3.1.21 | Package registry (OSV) |
| RubyGems:rack | 3.2.6 | Package registry (OSV) |
| suse:rmt-server | 3.1.0-160000.1.1 · SUSE:Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
All researchersFinders, reporters and analysts named in the CNA record. Click a name for that researcher’s other records.
No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
- CVE-2026-342300 days apartRack: Quadratic complexity in Rack::Utils.select_best_encoding via wildcard Accept-Encoding header30Monitor
- CVE-2026-348260 days apartRack: Unbounded Range Count in get_byte_ranges Enables DoS30Monitor
- CVE-2026-348270 days apartRack: Algorithmic-Complexity DoS in Rack::Multipart::Parser30Monitor
- CVE-2025-61919174 days apartRack is vulnerable to a memory-exhaustion DoS through unbounded URL-encoded body parsing30Monitor
- CVE-2025-61771177 days apartRack's multipart parser buffers large non‑file fields entirely in memory, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)30Monitor
- CVE-2025-61772177 days apartRack's multipart parser buffers unbounded per-part headers, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)30Monitor
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- No account or password is required.
- No user action is required.
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd-secondary
Root cause
Code that parses nested structures sets no depth or size limit. A small input can turn into a disproportionate processing load.
The bug in code
The whole CWE-400 classA representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.
Vulnerable
function expand(node) {
return node.children.map(expand);
}Fixed
const MAX_DEPTH = 32;
function expand(node, depth = 0) {
if (depth > MAX_DEPTH) throw new Error("too deep");
return node.children.map((c) => expand(c, depth + 1));
}Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Change log
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.