CVE-2024-39316: Rack ReDoS Vulnerability in HTTP Accept Headers Parsing
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the Rack::Request::Helpers
module when parsing HTTP Accept headers. This vulnerability can be exploited by an attacker sending specially crafted Accept-Encoding
or Accept-Language
headers, causing the server to spend excessive time processing the request and leading to a Denial of Service (DoS).
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