CVE-2018-20164 – uap-core

Package

Manager: npm
Name: uap-core
Vulnerable Version: >=0 <0.6.0

Severity

Level: Medium

CVSS v3.1: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.01024 pctl0.76416

Details

uap-core Regular Expression Denial of Service issue 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.)

Metadata

Created: 2019-03-06T17:35:47Z
Modified: 2023-01-23T17:07:55Z
Source: https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2019/03/GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3/GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3.json
CWE IDs: ["CWE-185"]
Alternative ID: GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3
Finding: F211
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