CVE-2026-126080

Active Support: Possible DoS vulnerability in Active Support safe_constantize

Published Nov 10, 2026 CVSS 3.1 · 7.5 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
Active Support is a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions used by Rails and other Ruby projects. Prior to 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2, when constant lookup raises LoadError, ActiveSupport::Inflector#safe_constantize (and String#safe_constantize) builds a regular expression from the requested constant name without escaping it, so a caller that passes untrusted input lets the attacker choose the source of a pattern that the application compiles. Crafted patterns can trigger defects in Ruby's regular expression compiler, possibly leading to a crash of the server process, and repeated requests could keep the application unavailable. Action Cable passes the channel value of each subscribe command to safe_constantize before any channel lookup, so an unauthenticated client can reach this code when the application mounts Action Cable and accepts connections from untrusted clients without an added authentication check. This issue is fixed in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-8474-xrp6-wh69 Active Support: Possible DoS vulnerability in Active Support safe_constantize
History
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First Time appeared Rails
Rails rails
Vendors & Products Rails
Rails rails
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Description Active Support is a collection of utility classes and standard library extensions used by Rails and other Ruby projects. Prior to 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2, when constant lookup raises LoadError, ActiveSupport::Inflector#safe_constantize (and String#safe_constantize) builds a regular expression from the requested constant name without escaping it, so a caller that passes untrusted input lets the attacker choose the source of a pattern that the application compiles. Crafted patterns can trigger defects in Ruby's regular expression compiler, possibly leading to a crash of the server process, and repeated requests could keep the application unavailable. Action Cable passes the channel value of each subscribe command to safe_constantize before any channel lookup, so an unauthenticated client can reach this code when the application mounts Action Cable and accepts connections from untrusted clients without an added authentication check. This issue is fixed in versions 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2.
Title Active Support: Possible DoS vulnerability in Active Support safe_constantize
Weaknesses CWE-74
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Nov 12, 2026, 7:09 PM
Reserved
Nov 10, 2026, 5:07 PM
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
Nov 10, 2026, 9:19 PM
Modified
Nov 12, 2026, 10:09 PM
Severity
Important
Public date
Nov 10, 2026, 9:04 PM