CVE-2026-32762CWE-436

Rack: Forwarded Header semicolon injection enables Host and Scheme spoofing

Medium · published April 2, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.8
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. From versions 3.0.0.beta1 to before 3.1.21 and 3.2.0 to before 3.2.6, Rack::Utils.forwarded_values parses the RFC 7239 Forwarded header by splitting on semicolons before handling quoted-string values. Because quoted values may legally contain semicolons, a header can be interpreted by Rack as multiple Forwarded directives rather than as a single quoted for value. In deployments where an upstream proxy, WAF, or intermediary validates or preserves quoted Forwarded values differently, this discrepancy can allow an attacker to smuggle host, proto, for, or by parameters through a single header value. This issue has been patched in versions 3.1.21 and 3.2.6.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.8 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00245 · 14.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-436 · Interpretation Conflict
Published
2026-04-02T17:06Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 02 APR 17:06Z
    Rack: Forwarded Header semicolon injection enables Host and Scheme spoofing
    cvelistv5