Check Point Advisories

Rack Denial of Service (CVE-2024-25126)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2024-2195
Date Published:	5 Oct 2025
Severity:	High
Last Updated:	Sunday 05 October, 2025
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2024-25126
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?	Rack 0.4 and later, prior to 2.2.8.1 Rack 3.0.0 and later, prior to 3.0.9.1
Vulnerability Description	A denial of service vulnerability in Rack allows remote attackers to cause performance degradation by sending crafted content type headers.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the Rack Denial of Service (CVE-2024-25126) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Application Intelligence.
Attack Information: Rack Denial of Service (CVE-2024-25126)