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CVE-2012-6109

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2012-6109 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Rack versions prior to 1.1.4, 1.2.6, 1.3.7, and 1.4.2. An attacker can exploit an incorrect regular expression in lib/rack/multipart.rb by sending a specially crafted Content-Disposition header, leading to an infinite loop. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium attack complexity and potential for partial availability impact, with no confidentiality or integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:rack_project:rack:0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
84.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0272 is in the 76th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (37)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: sigar-0:1.6.5-0.12.git58097d9h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: snappy-java-0:1.0.4-2.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: thumbslug-0:0.0.28-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-delayed_job-0:2.1.4-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-nokogiri-0:1.5.0-0.9.beta4.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-rack-1:1.3.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-rails_warden-0:0.5.5-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-rdoc-0:3.8-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-rspec-rails-0:2.6.1-7.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-ruby_parser-0:2.0.4-6.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: CloudForms for RHEL 6Fixed in: rubygem-shoulda-0:2.11.3-5.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: apache-commons-codec-0:1.7-2.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: apache-mime4j-0:0.6-4_redhat_1.ep6.el6.1
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: candlepin-0:0.7.23-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: elasticsearch-0:0.19.9-5.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-0:1.2.1-15h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-certs-tools-0:1.2.1-1h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-cli-0:1.2.1-12h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-configure-0:1.2.3-3h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: katello-selinux-0:1.2.1-2h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: lucene3-0:3.6.1-10h.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: puppet-0:2.6.17-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: quartz-0:2.1.5-4.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-activesupport-1:3.0.10-10.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-apipie-rails-0:0.0.12-2.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-ldap_fluff-0:0.1.3-1.el6_3
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-mail-0:2.3.0-3.el6cf
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1.2Fixed in: rubygem-rack-1:1.3.0-3.el6cf
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rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.1.4
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.2.6
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.3.7
rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: rackFixed in: 1.4.2
redhatno patchvia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2Fixed in: rubygem-rack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: rubygem193-rack
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: OpenShift Enterprise 1Fixed in: rubygem-rack

Vendor Advisories (2)

rubygemsGHSA-h77x-m5q8-c29hmedium

Rack vulnerable to REDoS

Oct 24, 2017
redhatCVE-2012-6109Moderate

rubygem-rack: parsing Content-Disposition header DoS

May 4, 2012

References

rack.github.com
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0544.html
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2013-0548.html
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
github.com / rack/rack/blob/master/README.rdoc
github.com / rack/rack/commit/c9f65df37a151821eb88ddd1dc404b83e52c52d5
groups.google.com / forum