Is CVE-2024-26141 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-26141 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-02-14.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-26141?

CVE-2024-26141 has a CVSS score of 5.8 (MEDIUM severity). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L.

How do I patch CVE-2024-26141?

Patch guidance is available from rack security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2024-26141.

CVE-2024-26141 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2024-26141?

3 products: rack rack, rack rack, debian debian linux.

Description

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted Range headers can cause a server to respond with an unexpectedly large response. Responding with such large responses could lead to a denial of service issue. Vulnerable applications will use the `Rack::File` middleware or the `Rack::Utils.byte_ranges` methods (this includes Rails applications). The vulnerability is fixed in 3.0.9.1 and 2.2.8.1.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector: network
Complexity: low
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: changed
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: low
Weaknesses: CWE-400NVD-CWE-noinfo

Metadata

Primary Vendor: RACK
Published: 2/29/2024
Last Modified: 2/14/2025
Source: NIST NVD
Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.

Affected Products

rack : rackrack : rackdebian : debian_linux

Remediation Guidance

Executive Summary

Cite this page

CVE-2024-26141. CVEDatabase.com. Retrieved 1 May 2026. https://cvedatabase.com/cve/CVE-2024-26141

View on NIST NVD

CVE-2024-26141 vulnerability