FKIE_CVE-2021-33580

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2021-08-18 08:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 03:54
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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.
References
security@apache.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/18/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
security@apache.orghttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9d967d80af941717573e531db2c7353a90bfd0886e9b5d5d79f75506%40%3Cuser.roller.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/18/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9d967d80af941717573e531db2c7353a90bfd0886e9b5d5d79f75506%40%3Cuser.roller.apache.org%3EMailing List, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
apache roller *
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          "vendor": "Apache Software Foundation",
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T03:54:49.400",
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