CVE-2025-27220: CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in ruby-lang CGI
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the Util#escapeElement method.
CVE-2025-27220: CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in ruby-lang CGI
Description
In the CGI gem before 0.4.2 for Ruby, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the Util#escapeElement method.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- mitre
- Date Reserved
- 2025-02-20T00:00:00.000Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
Threat ID: 69091e18c28fd46ded86988e
Added to database: 11/3/2025, 9:26:48 PM
Last updated: 11/3/2025, 9:32:31 PM
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