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🛡️ CVE-2026-33658 — activestorage

🟡 CVSS 6.5 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-770 NVD
6.5
CVSS Score
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Description

Rails Active Storage has a possible DoS vulnerability in proxy mode via multi-range requests

Impact

Active Storage's proxy controller does not limit the number of byte ranges in an HTTP Range header. A request with thousands of small ranges causes disproportionate CPU usage compared to a normal request for the same file, possibly resulting in a DoS vulnerability.

Releases

The fixed releases are available at the normal locations.

Credit

This issue was responsibly reported by Hackerone researcher [thwin_htet](https://hackerone.com/thwin_htet).

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity none, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: None.
  • Integrity impact: None.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-33658 is classified as CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits. Resources are allocated on request with no cap, so a client can exhaust them.

Affected software

CVE-2026-33658 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • activestorage (fixed in 7.2.3.1)
  • rails (from 8.1.0 up to 8.1.2.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 25 March 2026 and last revised on 6 May 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)

Other advisories for this package

activestorage has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits) in other software:

CVE-2026-33658 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 6.5
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE CWE-770
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-03-25
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-05-06
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
activestorage — 7.2.3.1
rails 8.1.0 8.1.2.1

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