Sinatra is vulnerable to ReDoS through ETag header value generation
### 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)
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2025-61921US | high7.5 | — | ||
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-M… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104WEB
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/sinatra/CVE-2025-61921.ymlWEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatraPACKAGE
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/3fe8c38dc405586f7ad8f2ac748aa53e9c3615bdWEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/commit/8ff496bd4877520599e1479d6efead39304edcebWEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823WEB
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121WEB
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