CVE-2025-61772CWE-400denial-of-service

CVE-2025-61772

High · published October 7, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
1%
Percentile
60.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. In versions prior to 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2, `Rack::Multipart::Parser` can accumulate unbounded data when a multipart part’s header block never terminates with the required blank line (`CRLFCRLF`). The parser keeps appending incoming bytes to memory without a size cap, allowing a remote attacker to exhaust memory and cause a denial of service (DoS). Attackers can send incomplete multipart headers to trigger high memory use, leading to process termination (OOM) or severe slowdown. The effect scales with request size limits and concurrency. All applications handling multipart uploads may be affected. Versions 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2 cap per-part header size (e.g., 64 KiB). As a workaround, restrict maximum request sizes at the proxy or web server layer (e.g., Nginx `client_max_body_size`).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00930 · 60.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2025-10-07T19:16Z
Affected products (3)
ProductVersionsFixed in
rack/rack< 2.2.192.2.19
rack/rack≥ 3.1.0, < 3.1.173.1.17
rack/rack≥ 3.2.0, < 3.2.23.2.2
References (4)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 15:02Z
    Rack's multipart parser buffers unbounded per-part headers, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)
    cvelistv5