CVE-2024-25126
Published: 29 February 2024
Summary
CVE-2024-25126 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Rack Rack. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).
Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Application or System Exploitation (T1499.004); ranked in the top 35.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2024-0462
Vulnerability details
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted content type headers can cause Rack’s media type parser to take much longer than expected, leading to a possible denial of service vulnerability (ReDos 2nd degree polynomial). This vulnerability is…
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patched in 3.0.9.1 and 2.2.8.1.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI
Why these techniques?
ReDoS vulnerability in Rack's media type parser enables application-level denial of service via crafted Content-Type headers, causing excessive CPU usage through exploitation.
MITRE ATLAS TechniquesAI
MITRE ATLAS techniques
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.