[CVE-2022-30122] Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Multipart Parsing

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There is a possible denial of service vulnerability in the multipart parsing

component of Rack. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier

CVE-2022-30122.

Versions Affected: >= 1.2

Not affected: < 1.2

Fixed Versions: 2.0.9.1, 2.1.4.1, 2.2.3.1

Impact

Carefully crafted multipart POST requests can cause Rack’s multipart parser to

take much longer than expected, leading to a possible denial of service

vulnerability.

Impacted code will use Rack’s multipart parser to parse multipart posts. This

includes directly using the multipart parser like this:


params = Rack::Multipart.parse_multipart(env)

But it also includes reading POST data from a Rack request object like this:


p request.POST # read POST data

p request.params # reads both query params and POST data

All users running an affected release should either upgrade or use one of the

workarounds immediately.

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-multipart-redos.patch - Patch for 2.0 series

  • 2-1-multipart-redos.patch - Patch for 2.1 series

  • 2-2-multipart-redos.patch - Patch for 2.2 series

Credits

Thanks to @ooooooo_q for reporting this!

2-2-multipart-redos.patch (4.1 KB) 2-1-multipart-redos.patch (4.1 KB) 2-0-multipart-redos.patch (4.1 KB)