uri 1.0.2
CVE-2025-27221 - userinfo leakage in URI#join, URI#merge and URI#+.
low severity CVE-2025-27221~> 0.11.3, ~> 0.12.4, ~> 0.13.2, >= 1.0.3
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.
No officially reported memory leakage issues detected.
This gem version does not have any officially reported memory leaked issues.
No license issues detected.
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This gem version is available.
This gem version has not been yanked and is still available for usage.