Denial of service in cookiejar



Published: 2023-05-31
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2022-25901
CWE-ID CWE-1333
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
Subscribe 		cookiejar
Web applications / JS libraries

Vendor Bradley Farias

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Inefficient regular expression complexity

EUVDB-ID: #VU76691

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1:

CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25901

CWE-ID:

Exploit availability:

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions within the Cookie.parse function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

cookiejar: 1.0 - 2.1.3

Fixed software versions

CPE2.3 External links

http://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39/commits/eaa00021caf6ae09449dde826108153b578348e5
http://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COOKIEJAR-3149984
http://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39
http://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3176681
http://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/blob/master/cookiejar.js%23L73


Q & A

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