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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2025-27221

In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+) have an inadvertent leakage of authentication credentials because userinfo is retained even after changing the host.

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2 Nov 2026, 18:26 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2025-27221

core-osv · Original source

Published 3 Mar 2025, 00:00 UTC

In the URI gem before 1.0.3 for Ruby, the URI handling methods (URI.join, URI#merge, URI#+) have an inadvertent leakage of authentication credentials because userinfo is retained even after changing the host.

osv:CVE-2025-27221
Complete source record
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