GHSA-fx7m-j728-mjw3MediumCVSS 5.3

uap-core Regular Expression Denial of Service issue

Published
March 6, 2019
Last Modified
January 23, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2018-20164 →

📋 Description

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.)

🎯 Affected products1

  • npm/uap-core:< 0.6.0

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