# CVE-2026-67987: Denial of service in n/a

> A malicious model response with many unterminated think tags causes excessive CPU consumption in the Ruby LLM library, leading to denial of service.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Not needed
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 29 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 1 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-5m38-526f-3498, UBUNTU-CVE-2026-67987

## What is CVE-2026-67987?

CVE-2026-67987 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

crmne/ruby_llm at commit fa6f279847d6d7027814539d9c0dfc3bbdfd2a83 contains polynomial-time regular expression denial-of-service conditions in think-tag response parsing on Ruby 3.1.x. A malicious or anomalous model response containing many unterminated <think> tags can cause excessive CPU consumption in two consecutive regular expressions and delay chat-completion processing

Weakness: CWE-1333 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-67987?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-67987?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-67987 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-67987 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-67987 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-67987 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-67987 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in n/a, published on 29 Sep 2026. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-67987 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-67987/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-67987/index.md)
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## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-67987
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-67987
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-67987

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