GHSA-p4pj-mg4r-x6v4HighCVSS 7.5

Denial of Service in uap-core

Published
February 2, 2021
Last Modified
February 8, 2024

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2021-21317 →

📋 Description

Impact

Some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings.

Patches

Please update uap-core to >= v0.11.0

Downstream packages such as uap-python, uap-ruby etc which depend upon uap-core follow different version schemes.

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/uap-core:< 0.11.0

🔗 References (5)