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GHSA-7xx3-m584-x994

A poorly-behaved client could use keepalive requests to monopolize Puma's reactor and create a denial of service attack

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2019-16770

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems puma < 3.12.2 3.12.2
RubyGems puma >= 4.0.0, < 4.3.1 4.3.1

Details

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## Keepalive thread overload/DoS ### Impact A poorly-behaved client could use keepalive requests to monopolize Puma's reactor and create a denial of service attack. If more keepalive connections to Puma are opened than there are threads available, additional connections will wait permanently if the attacker sends requests frequently enough. ### Patches This vulnerability is patched in Puma 4.3.1 and 3.12.2. ### Workarounds Reverse proxies in front of Puma could be configured to always allow less than X keepalive connections to a Puma cluster or process, where X is the number of threads configured in Puma's thread pool. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue at [puma](github.com/puma/puma).

References

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