Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting phusion/passenger package, versions [6.0.21,6.0.26)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PHUSIONPASSENGER-8746065
  • published25 Feb 2025
  • disclosed24 Feb 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Feb 2025

NewCVE-2025-26803  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade phusion/passenger to version 6.0.26 or higher.

Overview

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1