High severity · published Oct 7, 2025
CVE-2025-61772
Rack's multipart parser buffers unbounded per-part headers, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion)
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` can accumulate unbounded data when a multipart part’s header block never terminates with the required blank line (`CRLFCRLF`). The parser keeps appending incoming bytes to memory without a size cap, allowing a remote attacker to exhaust memory and cause a denial of service (DoS). Attackers can send incomplete multipart headers to trigger high memory use, leading to process termination (OOM) or severe slowdown. The effect scales with request size limits and concurrency. All applications handling multipart uploads may be affected. Versions 2.2.19, 3.1.17, and 3.2.2 cap per-part header size (e.g., 64 KiB). As a workaround, restrict maximum request sizes at the proxy or web server layer (e.g., Nginx `client_max_body_size`).
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
< 2.2.19; >= 3.1, < 3.1.17; >= 3.2, < 3.2.2 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61772
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-61772
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-wpv5-97wm-hp9c
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