PT-2026-47579 · Rubygems · Puma

Published

2026-06-08

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Updated

2026-06-08

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

VectorAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Impact

PROXY protocol support for Puma was added in version 5.5.0.
When PROXY protocol v1 support is enabled, Puma reads incoming bytes into an internal buffer. It waits for "r " to determine whether a PROXY v1 line is present. If an attacker opens a TCP connection and continuously sends bytes without CRLF, Puma keeps appending to this pre-parse buffer.
This can cause unbounded in-process memory growth and additional CPU cost from repeatedly scanning the growing buffer for CRLF. A single, unauthenticated TCP connection can drive significant memory growth and may cause process/container OOM or degraded availability.
Only Puma servers using the following non-default config are affected:
  set remote address proxy protocol: :v1

Patches

Users should upgrade to versions 7.2.1 or 8.0.2.

Workarounds

  • Disable PROXY protocol v1 parsing if it is not required:
 # remove/comment this:
 # set remote address proxy protocol: :v1
  • Restrict direct network access to Puma listeners using PROXY protocol:
    • Only allow trusted load balancers/reverse proxies to connect.
    • Block arbitrary client TCP access with firewall/security group rules.

Resources

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

Related Identifiers

GHSA-QPGP-93VX-G8V8

Affected Products

Puma