CVE-2021-33580 (GCVE-0-2021-33580)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-08-18 07:50 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:50
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
regex injection leading to DoS
Summary
User controlled `request.getHeader("Referer")`, `request.getRequestURL()` and `request.getQueryString()` are used to build and run a regex expression. The attacker doesn't have to use a browser and may send a specially crafted Referer header programmatically. Since the attacker controls the string and the regex pattern he may cause a ReDoS by regex catastrophic backtracking on the server side. This problem has been fixed in Roller 6.0.2.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9d967d80af9… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/18/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache Roller |
Affected:
Apache Roller , < 6.0.2
(custom)
|
guessed |
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