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High · 8.9 CVE-2026-61845 EUVD-2026-114321GHSA-6wmf-3r64-vcwv

Crass: Large numeric exponents cause CPU and memory denial of service

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Oct 30, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Crass is a Ruby CSS parser that's fully compliant with the CSS Syntax Level 3 specification. Prior to 1.0.7, Crass converts `CSS scientific notation` number values with unbounded exponentiation before clamping the result to `Float::MAX`. Applications that use Crass to parse attacker-controlled CSS strings can be forced to spend disproportionate CPU and memory parsing a tiny input, potentially resulting in a crash. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.7.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rgrove crass < 1.0.7 —

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-crass 1.0.7-1 —
Debian 13 ruby-crass No fix yet —
Debian 12 ruby-crass No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ruby-crass No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS ruby-crass No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
RubyGems crass < 1.0.7 1.0.7 GHSA-6wmf-3r64-vcwv

References