CVE-2026-32762
MediumCVSS 4.8Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk8th percentile - higher than 8% of all known CVEs
Summary
Rack before versions 3.1.21 and 3.2.6 incorrectly parses the Forwarded header (RFC 7239) by splitting on semicolons before handling quoted-string values. Since quoted values may contain semicolons, the header can be interpreted as multiple Forwarded directives, allowing attackers to smuggle host, proto, for, or by parameters.
Risk Assessment
Attackers can bypass proxy or WAF protections, potentially leading to host or protocol spoofing, and subsequent phishing or session hijacking attacks.
Recommendation
Update Rack to version 3.1.21, 3.2.6, or later.
Other vulnerabilities in Rack
See all- CVE-2026-34835Medium
Rack::Request incorrectly parses the Host header, accepting characters like /, ?, #, and @ that are not allowed in RFC-compliant hostnames. The req.host method returns the full unvalidated value, allowing bypass of host validation based on simple prefix or suffix checks.
- CVE-2026-34827High
Rack versions from 3.0.0.beta1 to 3.1.20 and 3.2.0 to 3.2.5 have a DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser. An unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted multipart/form-data request with many parts containing long escaped parameter values, causing excessive CPU usage during parsing.
- CVE-2026-26962Medium
Rack::Multipart::Parser incorrectly unfolds folded multipart headers, preserving CRLF in parameter values. This can lead to header injection or HTTP response splitting in applications using these values.
- CVE-2026-34831Medium
In the Rack library (modular Ruby web server interface) versions prior to 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, the Rack::Files#fail method sets the Content-Length header using String#size instead of String#bytesize. When the response body contains multibyte UTF-8 characters, the declared length is smaller than the actual bytes sent. An attacker can trigger this mismatch by requesting a non-existent path with percent-encoded UTF-8 characters, leading to incorrect HTTP response framing and potential response desynchronization in deployments relying on the wrong Content-Length value.
- CVE-2026-34830Medium
In Rack prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6, a vulnerability was found in Rack::Sendfile#map_accel_path. Injecting the X-Accel-Mapping header into a regular expression without proper escaping allows an attacker to control the X-Accel-Redirect header, potentially leading to serving unauthorized files via nginx.
- CVE-2026-34829High
Rack prior to versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6 does not limit the size of data in multipart/form-data requests without a Content-Length header. An attacker can send an arbitrarily large file, causing disk space exhaustion and denial of service (DoS).
- CVE-2026-34826Medium
Rack before versions 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6 has a denial of service vulnerability due to an unlimited number of byte ranges in the HTTP Range header. An attacker can supply many small overlapping ranges, causing disproportionate CPU, memory, I/O, and bandwidth consumption.
- CVE-2026-34786Medium
Rack::Static incorrectly evaluates header rules on the raw URL-encoded PATH_INFO, while the file is served after decoding. A request for an encoded variant of a path can bypass the intended security headers.
- CVE-2026-34785High
Rack versions before 2.2.23, 3.1.21, and 3.2.6 improperly validate URL prefixes in Rack::Static, potentially leading to unauthorized static file serving and information disclosure.
- CVE-2026-34763Medium
Rack::Directory interpolates the configured root path directly into a regular expression when deriving the displayed directory path. If the root contains regex metacharacters such as +, *, or ., the prefix stripping can fail and the generated directory listing may expose the full filesystem path in the HTML output.
Original NVD description (English source)
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. From versions 3.0.0.beta1 to before 3.1.21 and 3.2.0 to before 3.2.6, Rack::Utils.forwarded_values parses the RFC 7239 Forwarded header by splitting on semicolons before handling quoted-string values. Because quoted values may legally contain semicolons, a header can be interpreted by Rack as multiple Forwarded directives rather than as a single quoted for value. In deployments where an upstream proxy, WAF, or intermediary validates or preserves quoted Forwarded values differently, this discrepancy can allow an attacker to smuggle host, proto, for, or by parameters through a single header value. This issue has been patched in versions 3.1.21 and 3.2.6.
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