CVE-2026-34826: Rack Denial of Service Vulnerability

{
  "schema_version" : "1.4.0",
  "id" : "GHSA-x8cg-fq8g-mxfx",
  "modified" : "2026-05-13T15:21:07Z",
  "published" : "2026-04-02T19:07:28Z",
  "aliases" : [ "CVE-2026-34826" ],
  "summary" : "Rack's multipart byte range processing allows denial of service via excessive overlapping ranges",
  "details" : "## Summary\n\n`Rack::Utils.get_byte_ranges` parses the HTTP `Range` header without limiting the number of individual byte ranges. Although the existing fix for CVE-2024-26141 rejects ranges whose total byte coverage exceeds the file size, it does not restrict the count of ranges. An attacker can supply many small overlapping ranges such as `0-0,0-0,0-0,...` to trigger disproportionate CPU, memory, I/O, and bandwidth consumption per request.\n\nThis results in a denial of service condition in Rack file-serving paths that process multipart byte range responses.\n\n## Details\n\n`Rack::Utils.get_byte_ranges` accepts a comma-separated list of byte ranges and validates them based on their aggregate size, but does not impose a limit on how many individual ranges may be supplied.\n\nAs a result, a request such as:\n\n```http\nRange: bytes=0-0,0-0,0-0,0-0,...\n```\n\ncan contain thousands of overlapping one-byte ranges while still satisfying the total-size check added for CVE-2024-26141.\n\nWhen such a header is processed by Rack’s file-serving code, each range causes additional work, including multipart response generation, per-range iteration, file seek and read operations, and temporary string allocation for response size calculation and output. This allows a relatively small request header to trigger disproportionately expensive processing and a much larger multipart response.\n\nThe issue is distinct from CVE-2024-26141. That fix prevents range sets whose total byte coverage exceeds the file size, but does not prevent a large number of overlapping ranges whose summed size remains within that limit.\n\n## Impact\n\nApplications that expose file-serving paths with byte range support may be vulnerable to denial of service.\n\nAn unauthenticated attacker can send crafted `Range` headers containing many small overlapping ranges to consume excessive CPU time, memory, file I/O, and bandwidth. Repeated requests may reduce application availability and increase pressure on workers and garbage collection.\n\n## Mitigation\n\n* Update to a patched version of Rack that limits the number of accepted byte ranges.\n* Reject or normalize multipart byte range requests containing excessive range counts.\n* Consider disabling multipart range support where it is not required.\n* Apply request filtering or header restrictions at the reverse proxy or application boundary to limit abusive `Range` headers.",
  "severity" : [ {
    "type" : "CVSS_V3",
    "score" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"
  } ],
  "affected" : [ {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "RubyGems",
      "name" : "rack"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "2.2.23"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "RubyGems",
      "name" : "rack"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "3.0.0.beta1"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "3.1.21"
      } ]
    } ]
  }, {
    "package" : {
      "ecosystem" : "RubyGems",
      "name" : "rack"
    },
    "ranges" : [ {
      "type" : "ECOSYSTEM",
      "events" : [ {
        "introduced" : "3.2.0"
      }, {
        "fixed" : "3.2.6"
      } ]
    } ]
  } ],
  "references" : [ {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/rack/rack/security/advisories/GHSA-x8cg-fq8g-mxfx"
  }, {
    "type" : "ADVISORY",
    "url" : "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-34826"
  }, {
    "type" : "PACKAGE",
    "url" : "https://github.com/rack/rack"
  }, {
    "type" : "WEB",
    "url" : "https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/rack/CVE-2026-34826.yml"
  } ],
  "database_specific" : {
    "cwe_ids" : [ "CWE-400", "CWE-770" ],
    "severity" : "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed" : true,
    "github_reviewed_at" : "2026-04-02T19:07:28Z",
    "nvd_published_at" : "2026-04-02T17:16:25Z"
  }
}