GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q
Sinatra is vulnerable to ReDoS through ETag header value generation
At a glance
- Published
- Updated
- CVE
- CVE-2025-61921
- CVSS_V4
- CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U
Description
### Summary There is a denial of service vulnerability in the `If-Match` and `If-None-Match` header parsing component of Sinatra, if the `etag` method is used when constructing the response and you are using Ruby < 3.2. ### Details Carefully crafted input can cause `If-Match` and `If-None-Match` header parsing in Sinatra to take an unexpected amount of time, possibly resulting in a denial of service attack vector. This header is typically involved in generating the `ETag` header value. Any applications that use the `etag` method when generating a response are impacted if they are using Ruby below version 3.2. ### Resources * https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120 (report) * https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121 (fix) * https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823 (older ReDoS vulnerability) * https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104 (fix in Ruby >= 3.2)
Affected packages
| Package | Versions |
|---|---|
| RubyGems · sinatra | introduced 0, fixed 4.2.0 |
References
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/security/advisories/GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q WEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61921 ADVISORY
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120 WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823 WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121 WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/3fe8c38dc405586f7ad8f2ac748aa53e9c3615bd WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/8ff496bd4877520599e1479d6efead39304edceb WEB
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104 WEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sinatra/CVE-2025-61921.yml WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra PACKAGE
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| OSV.dev | CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database |