puma 5.6.0-java
HTTP Request Smuggling in puma
high severity CVE-2022-24790~> 4.3.12
, >= 5.6.4
Impact
When using Puma behind a proxy that does not properly validate that the incoming HTTP request matches the RFC7230 standard, Puma and the frontend proxy may disagree on where a request starts and ends. This would allow requests to be smuggled via the front-end proxy to Puma.
The following vulnerabilities are addressed by this advisory:
- Lenient parsing of
Transfer-Encoding
headers, when unsupported encodings should be rejected and the final encoding must bechunked
. - Lenient parsing of malformed
Content-Length
headers and chunk sizes, when only digits and hex digits should be allowed. - Lenient parsing of duplicate
Content-Length
headers, when they should be rejected. - Lenient parsing of the ending of chunked segments, when they should end
with
\r\n
.
Patches
The vulnerability has been fixed in 5.6.4 and 4.3.12.
Workarounds
When deploying a proxy in front of Puma, turning on any and all functionality to make sure that the request matches the RFC7230 standard.
These proxy servers are known to have "good" behavior re: this standard and upgrading Puma may not be necessary. Users are encouraged to validate for themselves.
- Nginx (latest)
- Apache (latest)
- Haproxy 2.5+
- Caddy (latest)
- Traefik (latest)
References
Information Exposure with Puma when used with Rails
high severity CVE-2022-23634~> 4.3.11
, >= 5.6.2
Impact
Prior to puma
version 5.6.2
, puma
may not always call
close
on the response body. Rails, prior to version 7.0.2.2
, depended on the
response body being closed in order for its CurrentAttributes
implementation to
work correctly.
From Rails:
Under certain circumstances response bodies will not be closed, for example a bug in a webserver[1] or a bug in a Rack middleware. In the event a response is not notified of a close, ActionDispatch::Executor will not know to reset thread local state for the next request. This can lead to data being leaked to subsequent requests, especially when interacting with ActiveSupport::CurrentAttributes.
The combination of these two behaviors (Puma not closing the body + Rails' Executor implementation) causes information leakage.
Patches
This problem is fixed in Puma versions 5.6.2 and 4.3.11.
This problem is fixed in Rails versions 7.02.2, 6.1.4.6, 6.0.4.6, and 5.2.6.2.
See: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wh98-p28r-vrc9 for details about the rails vulnerability
Upgrading to a patched Rails or Puma version fixes the vulnerability.
Workarounds
Upgrade to Rails versions 7.0.2.2, 6.1.4.6, 6.0.4.6, and 5.2.6.2.
The Rails CVE includes a middleware that can be used instead.
Puma's header normalization allows for client to clobber proxy set headers
medium severity CVE-2024-45614~> 5.6.9
, >= 6.4.3
Impact
Clients could clobber values set by intermediate proxies (such as X-Forwarded-For) by providing a underscore version of the same header (X-Forwarded_For).
Any users trusting headers set by their proxy may be affected. Attackers may be able to downgrade connections to HTTP (non-SSL) or redirect responses, which could cause confidentiality leaks if combined with a separate MITM attack.
Patches
v6.4.3/v5.6.9 now discards any headers using underscores if the non-underscore version also exists. Effectively, allowing the proxy defined headers to always win.
Workarounds
Nginx has a underscores_in_headers configuration variable to discard these headers at the proxy level.
Any users that are implicitly trusting the proxy defined headers for security or availability should immediately cease doing so until upgraded to the fixed versions.
Puma HTTP Request/Response Smuggling vulnerability
medium severity CVE-2024-21647~> 5.6.8
, >= 6.4.2
Impact
Prior to versions 6.4.2 and 5.6.8, puma exhibited incorrect behavior when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies in a way that allowed HTTP request smuggling.
Fixed versions limit the size of chunk extensions. Without this limit, an attacker could cause unbounded resource (CPU, network bandwidth) consumption.
Patches
The vulnerability has been fixed in 6.4.2 and 5.6.8.
Workarounds
No known workarounds.
References
- HTTP Request Smuggling
- Open an issue in Puma
- See our security policy
Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling') in puma
medium severity CVE-2023-40175~> 5.6.7
, >= 6.3.1
Impact
Prior to version 6.3.1, puma exhibited incorrect behavior when parsing chunked transfer encoding bodies and zero-length Content-Length headers in a way that allowed HTTP request smuggling.
The following vulnerabilities are addressed by this advisory:
- Incorrect parsing of trailing fields in chunked transfer encoding bodies
- Parsing of blank/zero-length Content-Length headers
\r\n
Patches
The vulnerability has been fixed in 6.3.1 and 5.6.7.
Workarounds
No known workarounds.
References
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