CVE-2019-16770 — Potential DOS attack in Puma
In Puma before versions 3.12.2 and 4.3.1, a poorly-behaved client could use keepalive requests to monopolize Puma's reactor and create a denial of service attack. If more keepal…
Published: 2019-12-05 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 3.1
In Puma before versions 3.12.2 and 4.3.1, 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. This vulnerability is patched in Puma 4.3.1 and 3.12.2.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7