CVE-2026-61848Crass: Non-ASCII characters cause superlinear CPU consumption
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.49%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 58% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Crass is a Ruby CSS parser that's fully compliant with the CSS Syntax Level 3 specification. Prior to 1.0.7, when Crass parses input containing `non-ASCII characters`, inefficiencies in tracking the positions of `multi-byte characters` result in superlinear parsing time. An attacker-controlled CSS input consisting of many `non-ASCII characters` can therefore cause excessive CPU consumption and potentially denial of service. This issue is fixed in version 1.0.7.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 4 months later
· 4 months later
Published
- 7 days later
· 7 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 4.0 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.49% · top 58% of all CVEs (14 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemscrassGHSA-8vfg-2r28-hvhj (opens in a new tab)
References
References3
- https://github.com/rgrove/crass/security/advisories/GHSA-8vfg-2r28-hvhj (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/rgrove/crass/releases/tag/v1.0.7 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- http://github.com/rgrove/crass/commit/da29664648bf80a97a6439e030a4814291c9afa5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-114324 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-8vfg-2r28-hvhj (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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