Vulnerability in rack (CVE-2026-34829)
Summary
Vulnerability in rack (CVE-2026-34829). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Exploitable via BoundedIO. Mitigation: upgrade to 3.2.6 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Summary
Rack::Multipart::Parser only wraps the request body in a BoundedIO when CONTENT_LENGTH is present. When a multipart/form-data request is sent without a Content-Length header, such as with HTTP chunked transfer encoding, multipart parsing continues until end-of-stream with no total size limit.
For file parts, the uploaded body is written directly to a temporary file on disk rather than being constrained by the buffered in-memory upload limit. An unauthenticated attacker can therefore stream an arbitrarily large multipart file upload and consume unbounded disk space.
This results in a denial of service condition for Rack applications that accept multipart form data.
Details
Rack::Multipart::Parser.parse applies BoundedIO only when content_length is not nil:
io = BoundedIO.new(io, content_length) if content_length
When CONTENT_LENGTH is absent, the parser reads the multipart body until EOF without a global byte limit.
Although Rack enforces BUFFERED_UPLOAD_BYTESIZE_LIMIT for retained non-file parts, file uploads are handled differently. When a multipart part includes a filename, the body is streamed to a Tempfile, and the retained-size accounting is not applied to that file content. As a result, file parts are not subject to the same upload size bound.
An attacker can exploit this by sending a chunked multipart/form-data request containing a file part and continuously streaming data without declaring a Content-Length…
Source: GitHub Security Advisories (Global) NVD GitHub Advisory
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-34829 has been found in rack.
Attackers can target a specific entry point like BoundedIO over the network to misuse the product.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 7.5/10.
What to do: upgrade rack to 3.2.6 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "rack CVE-2026-34829" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2026-34829 (rack) — CWE-400 / CVSS v3 7.5
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Attack surface: BoundedIO / CONTENT_LENGTH / content_length / nil
Patched: 3.2.6 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-400) exists in rack. Attackers reach the vulnerable code path via BoundedIO without authentication.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of rack. Attack surface: BoundedIO / CONTENT_LENGTH / content_length / nil.
Severity: High (CVSS 7.5/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 3.2.6.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'rack' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'rack' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
rackを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade rack to 3.2.6ステージング環境で 3.2.6 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2026-34829 ruby-rack
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2026-34829 ruby-rack
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- package github.com
- patch security-advisories@github.com
- web github.com
- web github.com
- web access.redhat.com
- web bugzilla.redhat.com
- web security.access.redhat.com