CVE-2025-59830

Publication date 26 September 2025

Last updated 15 January 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.5 · High

Score breakdown

Description

Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to version 2.2.18, Rack::QueryParser enforces its params_limit only for parameters separated by &, while still splitting on both & and ;. As a result, attackers could use ; separators to bypass the parameter count limit and submit more parameters than intended. Applications or middleware that directly invoke Rack::QueryParser with its default configuration (no explicit delimiter) could be exposed to increased CPU and memory consumption. This can be abused as a limited denial-of-service vector. This issue has been patched in version 2.2.18.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
ruby-rack 25.10 questing
Not affected
25.04 plucky
Fixed 2.2.7-1.1ubuntu0.25.04.3
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 2.2.7-1ubuntu0.4
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 2.1.4-5ubuntu1.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.0.7-2ubuntu0.1+esm8
18.04 LTS bionic Ignored changes too intrusive
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored end of ESM support, was ignored [changes too intrusive]
14.04 LTS trusty Ignored changes too intrusive

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Notes

mdeslaur

in 3.x, rack no longer splits on ; since the following commit: https://github.com/rack/rack/commit/ef1fc0c44e6a4b77c8fcf9b4f3bfa09f04ae8482

Patch details

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Package Patch details
ruby-rack

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 7.5 · High
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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