CVE-2021-32740

Regular Expression Denial of Service in Addressable templates

Published Jul 6, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS 2.1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability exists after version 2.3.0 through version 2.7.0. Within the URI template implementation in Addressable, a maliciously crafted template may result in uncontrolled resource consumption, leading to denial of service when matched against a URI. In typical usage, templates would not normally be read from untrusted user input, but nonetheless, no previous security advisory for Addressable has cautioned against doing this. Users of the parsing capabilities in Addressable but not the URI template capabilities are unaffected. The vulnerability is patched in version 2.8.0. As a workaround, only create Template objects from trusted sources that have been validated not to produce catastrophic backtracking.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-1480 Addressable is an alternative implementation to the URI implementation that is part of Ruby's standard library. An uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability exists after version 2.3.0 through version 2.7.0. Within the URI template implementation in Addressable, a maliciously crafted template may result in uncontrolled resource consumption, leading to denial of service when matched against a URI. In typical usage, templates would not normally be read from untrusted user input, but nonetheless, no previous security advisory for Addressable has cautioned against doing this. Users of the parsing capabilities in Addressable but not the URI template capabilities are unaffected. The vulnerability is patched in version 2.8.0. As a workaround, only create Template objects from trusted sources that have been validated not to produce catastrophic backtracking.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g Regular Expression Denial of Service in Addressable templates
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 11:33 PM
Reserved
May 12, 2021, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Jul 6, 2021, 3:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:53 AM
Severity
Moderate
Public date
Jul 3, 2021, 12:00 AM