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GHSA-6wmf-3r64-vcwv (crass): Large numeric exponents cause CPU and memory denial of service

Large numeric exponents cause CPU and memory denial of service

Published: June 25, 2026

SECURITY IDENTIFIERS

GEM

crass

PATCHED VERSIONS

>= 1.0.7

DESCRIPTION

Impact

Crass converts CSS scientific notation number values with unbounded exponentiation before it clamps the result to Float::MAX. Applications that use Crass to parse attacker-controlled CSS strings can be forced to spend disproportionate CPU and memory parsing a tiny input, possibly resulting in a crash.

Exponents are now bounded before 10**exponent is computed.

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