9.8
CVSSv3

CVE-2023-40175

Published: 18/08/2023 Updated: 24/08/2023
CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. Prior to versions 6.3.1 and 5.6.7, puma exhibited incorrect behavior when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies and zero-length Content-Length headers in a way that allowed HTTP request smuggling. Severity of this issue is highly dependent on the nature of the web site using puma is. This could be caused by either incorrect parsing of trailing fields in chunked transfer encoding bodies or by parsing of blank/zero-length Content-Length headers. Both issues have been addressed and this vulnerability has been fixed in versions 6.3.1 and 5.6.7. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

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Debian Bug report logs - #1050079 puma: CVE-2023-40175: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') Package: src:puma; Maintainer for src:puma is Debian Ruby Team <pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers@listsaliothdebianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Sat, ...
DescriptionThe MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as: Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism Prior to versions 631 and 567, puma exhibited incorrect behavior when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies and zero-length Content-Length headers in a way that allowed HTTP request smuggling Severity of this issue is highly de ...

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