Rack session gets restored after deletion
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · Low · None
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 6 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA, GitHub and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-613.
Summary
Rack is a modular Ruby web server interface. Prior to version 2.2.14, when using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, simultaneous rack requests can restore a deleted rack session, which allows the unauthenticated user to occupy that session. Rack session middleware prepares the session at the beginning of request, then saves is back to the store with possible changes applied by host rack application. This way the session becomes to be a subject of race conditions in general sense over concurrent rack requests. When using the `Rack::Session::Pool` middleware, and provided the attacker can acquire a session cookie (already a major issue), the session may be restored if the attacker can trigger a long running request (within that same session) adjacent to the user logging out, in order to retain illicit access even after a user has attempted to logout. Version 2.2.14 contains a patch for the issue. Some other mitigations are available. Either ensure the application invalidates sessions atomically by marking them as logged out e.g., using a `logged_out` flag, instead of deleting them, and check this flag on every request to prevent reuse; or implement a custom session store that tracks session invalidation timestamps and refuses to accept session data if the session was invalidated after the request began.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rack | rack | before 2.2.14 | 2.2.14 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | rack (RubyGems) | before 2.2.14 | 2.2.14 | Patch available | GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g |
- rack Vendorrack Affected before 2.2.14 Fixed in 2.2.14 Patch available CNA
- rack (RubyGems) Vendor— Affected before 2.2.14 Fixed in 2.2.14 Patch available GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g
Remediation
- Fix · CNA rack (rack) Fixed in 2.2.14
- Fix · GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g rack (RubyGems) Fixed in 2.2.14 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat 3scale API Management Platform 2 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | Affected | No fix yet: Fix deferred |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-32441
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g
References
Advisory 2
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- TI-2024-17236 Possible Denial of Service Vulnerability in Rack Header Parsing CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2024-17231 Possible DoS Vulnerability with Range Header in Rack CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2023-12254 Uncontrolled resource consumption in https://github.com/rack/rack CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-38165 Rack's multipart parser buffers unbounded per-part headers, enabling DoS (memory exhaustion) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2025-38163 Rack's unbounded multipart preamble buffering enables DoS (memory exhaustion) CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-32441 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-32441 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vpfw-47h7-xj4g · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-32441 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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