{ "CVE_data_meta": { "ASSIGNER": "security-advisories@github.com", "ID": "CVE-2021-41115", "STATE": "PUBLIC", "TITLE": "Regular expression denial-of-service in Zulip" }, "affects": { "vendor": { "vendor_data": [ { "product": { "product_data": [ { "product_name": "zulip", "version": { "version_data": [ { "version_value": "< 4.7" } ] } } ] }, "vendor_name": "zulip" } ] } }, "data_format": "MITRE", "data_type": "CVE", "data_version": "4.0", "description": { "description_data": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "Zulip is an open source team chat server. In affected versions Zulip allows organization administrators on a server to configure \"linkifiers\" that automatically create links from messages that users send, detected via arbitrary regular expressions. Malicious organization administrators could subject the server to a denial-of-service via regular expression complexity attacks; most simply, by configuring a quadratic-time regular expression in a linkifier, and sending messages that exploited it. A regular expression attempted to parse the user-provided regexes to verify that they were safe from ReDoS -- this was both insufficient, as well as _itself_ subject to ReDoS if the organization administrator entered a sufficiently complex invalid regex. Affected users should [upgrade to the just-released Zulip 4.7](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-to-a-release), or [`main`](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-from-a-git-repository)." } ] }, "impact": { "cvss": { "attackComplexity": "LOW", "attackVector": "NETWORK", "availabilityImpact": "LOW", "baseScore": 4.3, "baseSeverity": "MEDIUM", "confidentialityImpact": "NONE", "integrityImpact": "NONE", "privilegesRequired": "LOW", "scope": "UNCHANGED", "userInteraction": "NONE", "vectorString": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L", "version": "3.1" } }, "problemtype": { "problemtype_data": [ { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption" } ] }, { "description": [ { "lang": "eng", "value": "CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity" } ] } ] }, "references": { "reference_data": [ { "name": "https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-4h36-mqfq-42jg", "refsource": "CONFIRM", "url": "https://github.com/zulip/zulip/security/advisories/GHSA-4h36-mqfq-42jg" }, { "name": "https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/e2d303c1bb5f538d17dc3d9134bc8858bdece781", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/e2d303c1bb5f538d17dc3d9134bc8858bdece781" }, { "name": "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-118-zulip-zulip/", "refsource": "MISC", "url": "https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-118-zulip-zulip/" } ] }, "source": { "advisory": "GHSA-4h36-mqfq-42jg", "discovery": "UNKNOWN" } }