cvelist/2021/33xxx/CVE-2021-33580.json

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    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ASSIGNER": "security@apache.org",
        "ID": "CVE-2021-33580",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC",
        "TITLE": "regex injection leading to DoS"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "Apache Roller",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_affected": "<",
                                            "version_name": "Apache Roller",
                                            "version_value": "6.0.2"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    },
                    "vendor_name": "Apache Software Foundation"
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "credit": [
        {
            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "Apache Roller would like to thank Ed Ra (https://github.com/edvraa) for reporting this."
        }
    ],
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "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."
            }
        ]
    },
    "generator": {
        "engine": "Vulnogram 0.0.9"
    },
    "impact": [
        {
            "other": "Low: This attack will only work if Banned-words Referrer processing is turned on in Roller and it is off-by-default."
        }
    ],
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9d967d80af941717573e531db2c7353a90bfd0886e9b5d5d79f75506%40%3Cuser.roller.apache.org%3E",
                "name": "https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9d967d80af941717573e531db2c7353a90bfd0886e9b5d5d79f75506%40%3Cuser.roller.apache.org%3E"
            },
            {
                "refsource": "MLIST",
                "name": "[oss-security] 20210817 CVE-2021-33580: Apache Roller: regex injection leading to DoS",
                "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/08/18/1"
            }
        ]
    },
    "source": {
        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
    },
    "work_around": [
        {
            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "This problem has been fixed in Roller 6.0.2. If you are not able to upgrade then you can \"work around\" the problem.\n\nIf Banned-Words Referrer processing is enabled and you are concerned about this type of attack then disable it.\n\nIn the Roller properties, set this property site.bannedwordslist.enable.referrers=false"
        }
    ]
}