CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-25186
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2025-02-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1287, CWE-400, CWE-405, CWE-409, CWE-770, CWE-789
Description
Net::IMAP implements Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client functionality in Ruby. Starting in version 0.3.2 and prior to versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, and 0.5.6, there is a possibility for denial of service by memory exhaustion in `net-imap`'s response parser. At any time while the client is connected, a malicious server can send can send highly compressed `uid-set` data which is automatically read by the client's receiver thread. The response parser uses `Range#to_a` to convert the `uid-set` data into arrays of integers, with no limitation on the expanded size of the ranges. Versions 0.3.8, 0.4.19, 0.5.6, and higher fix this issue. Additional details for proper configuration of fixed versions and backward compatibility are available in the GitHub Security Advisory.
Related
Weakness · CWE (6)
- CWE-1287 Improper Validation of Specified Type of Input weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
- CWE-405 Asymmetric Resource Consumption (Amplification) weakness
- CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification) weakness
- CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling weakness
- CWE-789 Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value weakness
References
- https://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/70e3ddd071a94e450b3238570af482c296380b35 github.com
- https://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/c8c5a643739d2669f0c9a6bb9770d0c045fd74a3 github.com
- https://github.com/ruby/net-imap/commit/cb92191b1ddce2d978d01b56a0883b6ecf0b1022 github.com
- https://github.com/ruby/net-imap/security/advisories/GHSA-7fc5-f82f-cx69 github.com