Is CVE-2024-26146 actively exploited?

CVE-2024-26146 has no public evidence of in-the-wild exploitation as of 2025-02-14.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2024-26146?

CVE-2024-26146 has a CVSS score of 5.3 (MEDIUM severity). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

How do I patch CVE-2024-26146?

Patch guidance is available from rack security advisories. CVEDatabase generates AI-assisted remediation guidance on demand for CVE-2024-26146.

CVE-2024-26146 - remediation guidance & executive summary

Q: Which products are affected by CVE-2024-26146?

4 products: rack rack, rack rack, rack rack, debian debian linux.

Description

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Carefully crafted headers can cause header parsing in Rack to take longer than expected resulting in a possible denial of service issue. Accept and Forwarded headers are impacted. Ruby 3.2 has mitigations for this problem, so Rack applications using Ruby 3.2 or newer are unaffected. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.0.9.4, 2.1.4.4, 2.2.8.1, and 3.0.9.1.

CVSS Metrics

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector: network
Complexity: low
Privileges: none
User Action: none
Scope: unchanged
Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: low
Weaknesses: CWE-1333 CWE-1333

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.

CVE-2024-26146

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