Resource Exhaustion Affecting rubygem-sinatra package, versions <1:1.4.7-3.el7sat


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (37th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-RUBYGEMSINATRA-4447137
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed6 Nov 2018

Introduced: 6 Nov 2018

CVE-2018-16470  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 rubygem-sinatra to version 1:1.4.7-3.el7sat or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3172.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rubygem-sinatra package and not the rubygem-sinatra package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. Specially crafted requests can cause the multipart parser to enter a pathological state, causing the parser to use CPU resources disproportionate to the request size.