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CVE-2021-32740: Regular Expression Denial of Service in Addressable templates

July 12, 2021 (updated April 6, 2026)

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.

References

  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g
  • github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/addressable/CVE-2021-32740.yml
  • github.com/sporkmonger/addressable
  • github.com/sporkmonger/addressable/commit/0d8a3127e35886ce9284810a7f2438bff6b43cbc
  • github.com/sporkmonger/addressable/commit/89c76130ce255c601f642a018cb5fb5a80e679a7
  • github.com/sporkmonger/addressable/commit/92685096b1f7235ed8986c03ce30a24972eed848
  • github.com/sporkmonger/addressable/security/advisories/GHSA-jxhc-q857-3j6g
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SDFQM2NHNAZ3NNUQZEJTYECYZYXV4UDS
  • lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WYPVOOQU7UB277UUERJMCNQLRCXRCIQ5
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32740

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.3.0 before 2.8.0

Fixed versions

  • 2.8.0

Solution

Upgrade to version 2.8.0 or above.

Impact 7.5 HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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Weakness

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Source file

gem/addressable/CVE-2021-32740.yml

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