CVE-2022-44572

Ubuntu Security Notice 7036-1 - It was discovered that Rack was not properly parsing data when processing multipart POST requests. If a user or automated system were tricked into sending a specially crafted multipart POST request to an application using Rack, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that Rack was not properly escaping untrusted data when performing logging operations, which could cause shell escaped sequences to be written to a terminal. If a user or automated system were tricked into sending a specially crafted request to an application using Rack, a remote attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code in the machine running the application.

Debian Linux Security Advisory 5530-1 - Several vulnerabilities were discovered in ruby-rack, a modular Ruby webserver interface, which may result in denial of service and shell escape sequence injection.

Ubuntu Security Notice 5910-1 - It was discovered that Rack did not properly structure regular expressions in some of its parsing components, which could result in uncontrolled resource consumption if an application using Rack received specially crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. It was discovered that Rack did not properly structure regular expressions in its multipart parsing component, which could result in uncontrolled resource consumption if an application using Rack to parse multipart posts received specially crafted input. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue was only fixed in Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM.

There is a denial of service vulnerability in the multipart parsing component of Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2022-44572. Versions Affected: >= 2.0.0 Not affected: None. Fixed Versions: 2.0.9.2, 2.1.4.2, 2.2.6.1, 3.0.0.1 Impact Carefully crafted input can cause RFC2183 multipart boundary parsing in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that parse multipart posts using Rack (virtually all Rails applications) are impacted. Releases The fixed releases are available at the normal locations. Workarounds There are no feasible workarounds for this issue. Patches To aid users who aren’t able to upgrade immediately we have provided patches for the two supported release series. They are in git-am format and consist of a single changeset. 2-0-Forbid-control-characters-in-attributes.patch - Patch for 2.0 series 2-1-Forbid-control-characters-in-attributes.patch - Patch f...