fkie_cve-2025-27220
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-03-04 00:15
Modified
2025-11-03 22:18
Severity ?
4.0 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the Util#escapeElement method.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/cgi/CVE-2025-27220.ymlThird Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://hackerone.com/reports/2890322Permissions Required
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00008.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby-lang cgi *
ruby-lang cgi *
ruby-lang cgi 0.3.6
ruby-lang ruby 3.1.0
ruby-lang ruby 3.2.0


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