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CVE-2021-33580

regex injection leading to DoS

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 6.0.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

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.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
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Affected versions

  • Apache Software Foundation Apache Roller

    fixed in 6.0.2

References 2

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