GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q
Sinatra is vulnerable to ReDoS through ETag header value generation
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
### Summary
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 and you are using Ruby < 3.2.
### Details
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 if they are using Ruby below version 3.2.
### Resources
* https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120 (report)
* https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121 (fix)
* https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823 (older ReDoS vulnerability)
* https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104 (fix in Ruby >= 3.2)
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/security/advisories/GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61921
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/3fe8c38dc405586f7ad8f2ac748aa53e9c3615bd
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/8ff496bd4877520599e1479d6efead39304edceb
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sinatra/CVE-2025-61921.yml
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra