VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2013-0183

medium
Published 2013-01-07 · Modified 2024-12-03
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.0

Description

multipart/parser.rb in Rack 1.3.x before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory error) via a long string in a Multipart HTTP packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
sid Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
forky Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
bullseye Fixed 1.4.1-2.1
bookworm Fixed 1.4.1-2.1

Package impact
EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
ruby RubyGemsrack<~> 1.3.8~> 1.3.8
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.3.0,<1.3.81.3.8
ruby RubyGemsrack>=1.4.0,<1.4.31.4.3

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
rack_projectrack1.3.0
rack_projectrack1.3.1
rack_projectrack1.3.2
rack_projectrack1.3.3
rack_projectrack1.3.4
rack_projectrack1.3.5
rack_projectrack1.3.6
rack_projectrack1.3.7
rack_projectrack1.4.0
rack_projectrack1.4.1
rack_projectrack1.4.2

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.