CVE-2021-29509
Puma Persistent Connection Resource Exhaustion Denial of Service
Description
Puma is a concurrent HTTP 1.1 server for Ruby/Rack applications. The fix for CVE-2019-16770 was incomplete. The original fix only protected existing connections that had already been accepted from having their requests starved by greedy persistent-connections saturating all threads in the same process. However, new connections may still be starved by greedy persistent-connections saturating all threads in all processes in the cluster. A `puma` server which received more concurrent `keep-alive` connections than the server had threads in its threadpool would service only a subset of connections, denying service to the unserved connections. This problem has been fixed in `puma` 4.3.8 and 5.3.1. Setting `queue_requests false` also fixes the issue. This is not advised when using `puma` without a reverse proxy, such as `nginx` or `apache`, because you will open yourself to slow client attacks (e.g. slowloris). The fix is very small and a git patch is available for those using unsupported versions of Puma.
INFO
Published Date :
May 11, 2021, 5:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Oct. 27, 2022, 12:39 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
3.6
Exploitability Score :
3.9
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth
information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to
CVE-2021-29509.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://gist.github.com/nateberkopec/4b3ea5676c0d70cbb37c82d54be25837 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-q28m-8xjw-8vr5 | Patch Third Party Advisory |
| https://github.com/puma/puma/security/policy | Third Party Advisory |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00015.html | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
| https://rubygems.org/gems/puma | Product Third Party Advisory |
| https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-28 | Third Party Advisory |
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CVE-2021-29509 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value -
Modified Analysis by [email protected]
Oct. 27, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00015.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00015.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-28 No Types Assigned https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-28 Third Party Advisory Added CWE NIST CWE-667 Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 27, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/08/msg00015.html [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 15, 2022
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-28 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
May. 24, 2021
Action Type Old Value New Value Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Changed Reference Type https://gist.github.com/nateberkopec/4b3ea5676c0d70cbb37c82d54be25837 No Types Assigned https://gist.github.com/nateberkopec/4b3ea5676c0d70cbb37c82d54be25837 Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-q28m-8xjw-8vr5 No Types Assigned https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-q28m-8xjw-8vr5 Patch, Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://github.com/puma/puma/security/policy No Types Assigned https://github.com/puma/puma/security/policy Third Party Advisory Changed Reference Type https://rubygems.org/gems/puma No Types Assigned https://rubygems.org/gems/puma Product, Third Party Advisory Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:puma:puma:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.3.8 *cpe:2.3:a:puma:puma:*:*:*:*:*:ruby:*:* versions from (including) 5.0.0 up to (excluding) 5.3.1
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-29509 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
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stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2021-29509
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
1.97 }} 0.54%
score
0.88797
percentile