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GHSA-98m9-hrrm-r99r

Faraday: Uncontrolled recursion in NestedParamsEncoder allows stack exhaustion DoS via deeply nested query parameters

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) High CVE-2026-54297

Packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
RubyGems faraday >= 2.0.0, < 2.14.3 2.14.3
RubyGems faraday >= 1.0.0, < 1.10.6 1.10.6

Details

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`Faraday::NestedParamsEncoder`, the default nested query parameter encoder/decoder in Faraday, decodes nested query strings without enforcing a maximum nesting depth. A crafted query string such as: ```text a[x][x][x][x]...[x]=1 ``` causes Faraday to build a deeply nested Ruby `Hash` structure. The internal `dehash` routine then recursively walks this attacker-controlled structure without a depth limit. At sufficient depth, Ruby raises an uncaught `SystemStackError` (`stack level too deep`), crashing the calling thread or worker. This can lead to denial of service in applications that pass attacker-controlled query strings to Faraday's nested query parsing or URL-building paths. This has been patched in version 2.14.3 and backported to 1.10.6.

References

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