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CVE-2018-20164GHSA-FX7M-J728-MJW3

An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0.

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Fix
Fixed in 0.6.0
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0. A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to a value containing a long digit string. (The UAP-Core project contains the vulnerability, propagating to all implementations.)

Timeline

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Affected versions

  • n/a n/a

    Version range not reported

  • uap-corenpm

    fixed in 0.6.0

References 4

GitHub · ua-parser/uap-core

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