CVE-2025-27219
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, the CGI::Cookie.parse method in the CGI library contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. The method does not impose any limit on the length of the raw cookie value it processes. This oversight can lead to excessive resource consumption when parsing extremely large cookies.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
14 explicit affected versions
18 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, the CGI::Cookie.parse method in the CGI library contains a potential Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability. The method does not impose any limit on the length of the raw cookie value it processes. This oversight can lead to excessive resource consumption when parsing extremely large cookies.
There is a possibility for DoS by in the cgi gem. This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-27219. We recommend upgrading the cgi gem. ## Details CGI::Cookie.parse took super-linear time to parse a cookie string in some cases. Feeding a maliciously crafted cookie string into the method could lead to a Denial of Service. Please update CGI gem to version 0.3.5.1, 0.3.7, 0.4.2 or later. ## Affected versions cgi gem versions <= 0.3.5, 0.3.6, 0.4.0 and 0.4.1. ## Credits Thanks to lio346 for discovering this issue. Also thanks to mame for fixing this vulnerability.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/27xxx/CVE-2025-27219.json
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/cgi/CVE-2025-27219.yml
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2936778
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00008.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27219
- https://github.com/ruby/cgi
- https://github.com/ruby/cgi/pull/52
- https://github.com/ruby/cgi/pull/53
- https://github.com/ruby/cgi/pull/54
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27219