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cel is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)GHSA-rjfc-c5r6-rqj7 Published Aug 14, 2026

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High Risk

This Affects:

RUSTcel
0.11.6 - 0.14.1
Fixed in 0.14.2
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TL;DR

The parser tracks expression nesting depth with a listener that increments a counter when entering an expression and decrements it when exiting. During error recovery on malformed input the parser can emit an exit callback without a matching enter, so the unchecked counter underflows, and deeply nested expressions can overflow it. This integer overflow or underflow triggers a panic that terminates the process, causing denial of service when untrusted expressions are parsed. The fix switches the depth counter to saturating arithmetic so malformed or deeply nested input returns a parse error instead of panicking.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range and your application parses untrusted or externally supplied CEL expressions.

Background info

cel is vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) in versions 0.11.6 - 0.14.1.

How to fix this

Upgrade the cel library to the patch version.