webrick is vulenrable to regex denial of service (ReDoS). An attacker is able to crash the application by submitting malicious strings within the Authorization header to the authentication module.
github.com/ruby/webrick/pull/31
hackerone.com/reports/661722
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/11/msg00025.html
lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/12/msg00009.html
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/31
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Dec/32
www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4587
www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2019/10/01/webrick-regexp-digestauth-dos-cve-2019-16201/