GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx
Aliases
  • CVE-2026-47737
Downstream
Related
Published
2026-06-09T00:09:44Z
Modified
2026-06-10T08:14:25.435745533Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Puma PROXY Protocol v1 Accepts Repeated Protocol Headers on Persistent Connections
Details

Impact

Puma is vulnerable to source IP spoofing when set_remote_address proxy_protocol: :v1 is enabled and persistent connections are used.

PROXY protocol v1 is a connection-level protocol. Support was added to Puma in v5.5.0. A proxy sends one PROXY header at the beginning of a TCP connection, before any HTTP data. Puma incorrectly re-parsed PROXY protocol headers after each keep-alive request on the same connection. An attacker able to send HTTP requests through a trusted proxy could therefore inject a second PROXY header between HTTP requests. Puma would treat the injected header as authoritative for the next request and overwrite REMOTE_ADDR.

This can mislead applications or middleware that use REMOTE_ADDR for security decisions, rate limiting, auditing, or allow/deny lists.

Only deployments that explicitly enable PROXY protocol v1 are affected, and will have set:

set_remote_address proxy_protocol: :v1

Puma's default configuration is not affected. Deployments that do not use persistent connections to Puma are also not expected to be affected by this issue.

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

Users can also disable persistent connections to Puma, for example:

enable_keep_alives false

References

Database specific 
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    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2026-06-09T00:09:44Z",
    "nvd_published_at": null,
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-290",
        "CWE-345"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

RubyGems / puma

Package

Name
puma
Purl
pkg:gem/puma

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
8.0.0
Fixed
8.0.2

Affected versions

8.*
8.0.0
8.0.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx.json"

RubyGems / puma

Package

Name
puma
Purl
pkg:gem/puma

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
5.5.0
Fixed
7.2.1

Affected versions

5.*
5.5.0
5.5.1
5.5.2
5.6.0
5.6.1
5.6.2
5.6.4
5.6.5
5.6.6
5.6.7
5.6.8
5.6.9
6.*
6.0.0
6.0.1
6.0.2
6.1.0
6.1.1
6.2.0
6.2.1
6.2.2
6.3.0
6.3.1
6.4.0
6.4.1
6.4.2
6.4.3
6.5.0
6.6.0
6.6.1
7.*
7.0.0.pre1
7.0.0
7.0.1
7.0.2
7.0.3
7.0.4
7.1.0
7.2.0

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/06/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx/GHSA-2vqw-3mp8-cgmx.json"