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CVE-2021-41186GHSA-HWHF-64MH-R662BIT-FLUENTD-2021-41186

ReDoS vulnerability in parser_apache2

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Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 1.14.2
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub

Summary

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure. The parser_apache2 plugin in Fluentd v0.14.14 to v1.14.1 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability. A broken apache log with a certain pattern of string can spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This issue is patched in version 1.14.2 There are two workarounds available. Either don't use parser_apache2 for parsing logs (which cannot guarantee generated by Apache), or put patched version of parser_apache2.rb into /etc/fluent/plugin directory (or any other directories specified by the environment variable `FLUENT_PLUGIN` or `--plugin` option of fluentd).

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • fluent fluentd

    From 0.14.14 · fixed in 1.14.2

  • fluentdRubyGems

    From 0.14.14 · fixed in 1.14.2

References 3

GitHub · fluent/fluentd

GitHub · github/securitylab-vulnerabilities