CVE-2026-62864: Ring's nested-params middleware has inefficient regular expression complexity

Published Oct 30, 2026
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Updated

Ring is a Clojure web applications library inspired by Python's WSGI and Ruby's Rack. Prior to 1.15.5, wrap-nested-params in the ring.middleware.nested-params namespace uses a backtracking regular expression to match parameter names from URL query strings and HTTP request bodies. An attacker can craft a parameter name that drives quadratic O(n^2) matching work, causing regular-expression denial of service in applications using the middleware. Ring-Defaults users are also exposed because nested-params is enabled by default. Applications omitting the middleware do not expose this parsing path. This issue is fixed in version 1.15.5.

Event History

Oct 30, 2026
CVE Published
via MITRE·08:34 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·08:34 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness
Data Sourced
via NVD·09:17 PM
DescriptionSeverityWeakness

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