CVE-2025-27220 (GCVE-0-2025-27220)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-03 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:13
VLAI
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.
Severity
4 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
ruby-lang CGI Affected: 0 , < 0.3.5.1 (custom)
Affected: 0.3.6 , < 0.3.7 (custom)
Affected: 0.4.0 , < 0.4.2 (custom)
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