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Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting rack package, versions >=2.0.4, <2.0.6

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-RACK-72566
  • published 6 Nov 2018
  • disclosed 22 Aug 2018
  • credit Aaron Patterson
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Introduced: 22 Aug 2018

CVE-2018-16470 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

due to incorrect buffer size in the multipart parser. Exploiting this vulnerability is possible via carefully crafted requests.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low