CVE-2025-61921 (GCVE-0-2025-61921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-10 19:28 – Updated: 2025-10-10 20:54
VLAI
Title
Sinatra has ReDoS vulnerability in ETag header value generation
Summary
Sinatra is a domain-specific language for creating web applications in Ruby. In versions prior to 4.2.0, 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. 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. Version 4.2.0 fixes the issue.
Severity
2.7 (Low)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-10-10 20:54 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 8035 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
sinatra sinatra Affected: < 4.2.0
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