SB2018050217 - ReDoS vulnerability in UAParser.js library
Published: May 2, 2018 Updated: May 11, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2018050217
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources when parsing data with regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a regular expression denial of service attack (ReDoS).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.