GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-22h5-pq3x-2gf2 URI allows for userinfo Leakage in URI#join, URI#merge, and URI#+
LOW
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-27221
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- uri
- Severity
- Low
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-200, CWE-212
- Reviewed
- 2025-03-03
Affected packages
• RubyGems uri: < 0.11.3 → fixed in 0.11.3
• RubyGems uri: >= 0.12.0, < 0.12.4 → fixed in 0.12.4
• RubyGems uri: >= 0.13.0, < 0.13.2 → fixed in 0.13.2
• RubyGems uri: >= 1.0.0, < 1.0.3 → fixed in 1.0.3
Description
There is a possibility for userinfo leakage by in the uri gem.
This vulnerability has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2025-27221. We recommend upgrading the uri gem.
Details
The methods `URI#join`, `URI#merge`, and `URI#+` retained userinfo, such as `user:password`, even after the host is replaced. When generating a URL to a malicious host from a URL containing secret userinfo using these methods, and having someone access that URL, an unintended userinfo leak could occur.
Please update URI gem to version 0.11.3, 0.12.4, 0.13.2, 1.0.3 or later.
Affected versions
uri gem versions < 0.11.3, 0.12.0 to 0.12.3, 0.13.0, 0.13.1 and 1.0.0 to 1.0.2.
Credits
Thanks to Tsubasa Irisawa (lambdasawa) for discovering this issue.
Also thanks to nobu for additional fixes of this vulnerability.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-27221 In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+) have an inadvertent leakage of authentication… vulnerability
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-27221 advisory
- https://github.com/ruby/uri/pull/154 web
- https://github.com/ruby/uri/pull/155 web
- https://github.com/ruby/uri/pull/156 web
- https://github.com/ruby/uri/pull/157 web
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2957667 web
- https://github.com/ruby/uri package
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/uri/CVE-2025-27221.yml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/03/msg00008.html web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00015.html web
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-27221 web
- https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2025/02/26/security-advisories web