Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In ruby-rack
Description
A denial of service vulnerability in the Range header parsing component of Rack >= 1.5.0. A Carefully crafted input can cause the Range header parsing component in Rack to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. Any applications that deal with Range requests (such as streaming applications, or applications that serve files) may be impacted.
Mitigation
Update Impact
Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.
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