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.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121 Patch
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/security/advisories/GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 2.7 · sinatrarbNVD modified 2026-10-19 16:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:sinatrarb:sinatra:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 5
- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/19104 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/issues/2120 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/1823 Exploit, Patch
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/pull/2121 Patch
- https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra/security/advisories/GHSA-mr3q-g2mv-mr4q Vendor Advisory