Vulnerability in ring (CVE-2025-4432)
Summary
Vulnerability in ring (CVE-2025-4432). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. Mitigation: upgrade to 0.17.12 or later.
Original description
The description as published by the source.
Ring: some aes functions may panic when overflow checking is enabled in ring in github.com/briansmith/ring
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
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A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-4432 has been found in ring.
Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure. CVSS score: 5.3/10.
What to do: upgrade ring to 0.17.12 or later.
If unsure, ask your IT team or search "ring CVE-2025-4432" on the vendor's site.
CVE-2025-4432 (ring) — CWE-770 / CVSS v3 5.3
Attack vector: remote (network-reachable) / unauthenticated / no user interaction
Patched: 0.17.12 — apply immediately
Plan: 1) Audit SBOM/dependencies, 2) Stage→prod upgrade, 3) Add WAF/proxy monitoring on affected endpoints, 4) Hunt IOCs in logs.
Refs: see the GHSA / vendor advisory / patched release linked on this page.
A vulnerability (CWE-770) exists in ring.
Check the vendor advisory for the affected versions of ring.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.3/10). Risk of unauthorized operations or information disclosure.
Update to 0.17.12.
Until the patch is applied: disable the affected feature, apply WAF rules, or restrict access via network ACLs.
Search webserver/proxy logs for unusual request patterns matching this CVE's known IOCs. Run grep -r 'ring' . against your dependency files (package-lock.json, requirements.txt, go.sum) to find affected services.
Response actions
Concrete steps and command examples for SOC/SRE teams to execute in order
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1Identify exposure identify
grep -r 'ring' . | grep -v node_modulesリポジトリと本番環境の依存ファイル (package-lock.json / requirements.txt / go.sum / Gemfile.lock 等) で
ringを grep し、稼働しているサービス・バージョンを把握する。 -
2Apply patch patch
Upgrade ring to 0.17.12ステージング環境で 0.17.12 に上げて回帰テスト → 本番反映。回帰テストはアプリの主要ハッピーパスを含めること。
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3Post-deployment verification verify
Confirm patched version is live in productionパッチ適用後、ステージングで PoC または同等の悪用パターンを再現して脆弱性が閉じたことを確認。本番ではアクセスログ・WAF でアラート再発が無いか継続監視。
Affected packages
Fix status by distribution
Fixed packages published by each distribution for this CVE
- Debian DEBIAN-CVE-2025-4432 rust-ring
- Ubuntu UBUNTU-CVE-2025-4432 rust-ring
References
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- web secalert@redhat.com
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