Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting passenger package, versions >=6.0.21, <6.0.26
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- published25 Feb 2025
- disclosed24 Feb 2025
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 24 Feb 2025
NewCVE-2025-26803 (opens in a new tab)Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) are common identifiers for publicly known security vulnerabilities
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How to fix?
Upgrade passenger to version 6.0.26 or higher.
Overview
passenger is a web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js, optimized for performance, low memory usage and ease of use.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Uninitialized Resource due to improper handling of HTTP requests with invalid methods. The HTTP parser fails to correctly process requests containing malformed or unrecognized HTTP methods, leading to a server crash or unresponsive state.