Vulnerability · Published Jul 14, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2026-47736Puma PROXY Protocol v1 Parser Allows Remote Memory Exhaustion
High 7.5
In plain English
A high-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in puma from puma. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 28% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.
Official description
Puma is a Ruby/Rack web server built for parallelism. From 5.5.0 until 7.2.1 and 8.0.2, when PROXY protocol v1 support is enabled, Puma reads incoming bytes into an internal buffer while waiting for CRLF to determine whether a PROXY v1 line is present, allowing an attacker that continuously sends bytes without CRLF to cause unbounded in-process memory growth and additional CPU cost from repeatedly scanning the growing buffer. This issue is fixed in versions 7.2.1 and 8.0.2.
Affected packages & fixed versions
| Ecosystem | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian:12 | puma | 5.6.5-3+deb12u2 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-47736 |
| Debian:13 | puma | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-47736 |
| Debian:14 | puma | 8.0.2-1 | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-47736 |
| RubyGems | puma | 7.2.1 | GHSA-qpgp-93vx-g8v8 |
| RubyGems | puma | 8.0.2 | GHSA-qpgp-93vx-g8v8 |
| Ubuntu:24.04:LTS | puma | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-47736 |
| Ubuntu:26.04:LTS | puma | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-47736 |
| Ubuntu:26.10 | puma | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-47736 |
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
References
- https://github.com/puma/puma/security/advisories/GHSA-qpgp-93vx-g8v8 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/439c6136d9c2275721b7864db3ee78af7c80889f x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/puma/puma/commit/ebe9db3929ab8299d19c8f5b41e8ef4f4b22fa58 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/puma/puma/releases/tag/v7.2.1 x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/puma/puma/releases/tag/v8.0.2 x_refsource_MISC