rails/rails · Security

Rails Active Storage has a possible DoS vulnerability when in proxy mode via Range requests

GHSA ID
GHSA-r46p-8f7g-vvvg
CVE ID
CVE-2026-33174
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS v4
6.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U

Description

Impact

When serving files through Active Storage's Blobs::ProxyController, the controller loads the entire requested byte range into memory before sending it. A request with a large or unbounded Range header (e.g. bytes=0-) could cause the server to allocate memory proportional to the file size, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability through memory exhaustion.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by Hackerone user pirikara

CWEs

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