Resource Exhaustion Affecting ruby-rack package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-RUBYRACK-15922756
  • published7 Apr 2026
  • disclosed2 Apr 2026

Introduced: 2 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-34230  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-407  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:14 ruby-rack.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ruby-rack package and not the ruby-rack package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, Rack::Utils.select_best_encoding processes Accept-Encoding values with quadratic time complexity when the header contains many wildcard (*) entries. Because this method is used by Rack::Deflater to choose a response encoding, an unauthenticated attacker can send a single request with a crafted Accept-Encoding header and cause disproportionate CPU consumption on the compression middleware path. This results in a denial of service condition for applications using Rack::Deflater. This issue has been patched in versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1