CVE-2013-0183

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

multipart/parser.rb in Rack 1.3.x before 1.3.8 and 1.4.x before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and out-of-memory error) via a long string in a Multipart HTTP packet.

Affected products

Rack Project Rack: 1.3.0, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.3.4, 1.3.5 (+5)

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://rack.github.com/
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2783
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895282
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/548b9af2dc0059f4c0c19728624448d84de450ff
https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/f95113402b7239f225282806673e1b6424522b18
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rack-devel/-MWPHDeGWtI
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/rack-devel/7ZKPNAjgRSs
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-03/msg00048.html
http://rack.github.com/

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