CVE 7.5 HIGH

Faraday: Uncontrolled recursion in NestedParamsEncoder allows stack exhaustion DoS via deeply nested query parameters_CVE-2026-54297

7.5 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

Faraday is an HTTP client library abstraction layer that provides a common interface over many adapters. From 1.0.0 until 1.10.6 and 2.14.3, Faraday::NestedParamsEncoder, the default nested query parameter encoder/decoder in Faraday, decodes nested query strings without enforcing a maximum nesting depth. A crafted query string causes Faraday to build a deeply nested Ruby Hash structure. The internal dehash routine then recursively walks this attacker-controlled structure without a depth limit. At sufficient depth, Ruby raises an uncaught SystemStackError (stack level too deep), crashing the calling thread or worker. This can lead to denial of service in applications that pass attacker-controlled query strings to Faraday's nested query parsing or URL-building paths. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.10.6 and 2.14.3.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-54297
Source GitHub_M
Published Jun 24, 2026 at 15:50

Affected Product

Vendor lostisland
Product faraday
Version >= 1.0.0, < 1.10.6
Affected Versions lostisland faraday >= 1.0.0, < 1.10.6
lostisland faraday >= 2.0.0.alpha.pre.1, < 2.14.3

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