CVE-2022-44570: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

February 9, 2023 (updated December 8, 2023)

A denial of service vulnerability in the Range header parsing component of Rack >= 1.5.0. A Carefully crafted input can cause the Range header parsing component in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that deal with Range requests (such as streaming applications, or applications that serve files) may be impacted.

References

discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/cve-2022-44570-possible-denial-of-service-vulnerability-in-racks-range-header-parsing/82125
github.com/advisories/GHSA-65f5-mfpf-vfhj
github.com/rack/rack/releases/tag/v3.0.4.1
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-44570

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