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Low · 2.7 CVE-2025-61921 EUVD-2025-33767GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q

Sinatra has ReDoS vulnerability in ETag header value generation

Published Oct 10, 2025 · Updated Oct 10, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

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-Match` header parsing component of Sinatra, if the `etag` method is used when constructing the response. 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. Version 4.2.0 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
sinatra sinatra < 4.2.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ruby-sinatra 4.2.1-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-sinatra No fix yet —
Debian 12 ruby-sinatra 3.0.5-3+deb12u1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ruby-sinatra 4.2.1-1 —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS ruby-sinatra 2.0.8.1-2+deb11u1ubuntu0.1~esm1 —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS ruby-sinatra 1.4.8-1ubuntu0.1~esm3 —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS ruby-sinatra 1.4.7-3ubuntu0.1~esm3 —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling gitlab-cng-18.2 No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems sinatra < 4.2.0 4.2.0 GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q

References