GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems

GHSA-98m9-hrrm-r99r Faraday: Uncontrolled recursion in NestedParamsEncoder allows stack exhaustion DoS via deeply nested query parameters

HIGH Published 2026-06-19 Modified 2026-06-26 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2026-54297
Ecosystem
RubyGems
Packages
faraday
Severity
High
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-674
Reviewed
2026-06-19

Affected packages

• RubyGems faraday: >= 2.0.0, < 2.14.3 → fixed in 2.14.3 • RubyGems faraday: >= 1.0.0, < 1.10.6 → fixed in 1.10.6

Description

`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 such as: ```text a[x][x][x][x]...[x]=1 ``` 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 has been patched in version 2.14.3 and backported to 1.10.6.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2026-54297 Faraday is an HTTP client library abstraction layer that provides a common interface over many adapters. vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-674 Uncontrolled Recursion weakness

References