High severity · published Oct 7, 2025
CVE-2025-61770
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface
7.5
CVSS
0.9%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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` buffers the entire multipart preamble (bytes before the first boundary) in memory without any size limit. A client can send a large preamble followed by a valid boundary, causing significant memory use and potential process termination due to out-of-memory (OOM) conditions. Remote attackers can trigger large transient memory spikes by including a long preamble in multipart/form-data requests. The impact scales with allowed request sizes and concurrency, potentially causing worker crashes or severe slowdown due to garbage collection. Versions 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2 enforce a preamble size limit (e.g., 16 KiB) or discard preamble data entirely. Workarounds include limiting total request body size at the proxy or web server level and monitoring memory and set per-process limits to prevent OOM conditions.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.9% · higher than 60% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
RA
Rack · Rack
before 2.2.19; 3.1.0 before 3.1.17; 3.2.0 before 3.2.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61770
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61770
Patch
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/589127f4ac8b5cf11cf88fb0cd116ffed4d2181e
Patch
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/d869fed663b113b95a74ad53e1b5cae6ab31f29e
Patch
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/e08f78c656c9394d6737c022bde087e0f33336fd
Mitigation
https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-p543-xpfm-54cp
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