Rack has quadratic complexity in Rack::Utils.select_best_encoding via wildcard Accept-Encoding header

Summary Rack::Utils.selectbestencoding processes Accept-Encoding values with quadratic time complexity when the header contains many wildcard entries. Because this method is used by Rack::Deflater to choose a response encoding, an unauthenticated attacker can send a single request with a crafted...

Denial of Service (DoS)

Overview rack is a minimal, modular and adaptable interface for developing web applications in Ruby. By wrapping HTTP requests and responses in the simplest way possible, it unifies and distills the API for web servers, web frameworks, and software in between the so-called middleware into a singl...