SB2024121940 - Denial of service in Mpmath
Published: December 19, 2024
Security Bulletin ID
SB2024121940
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) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-29063)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/npm/hosted-git-info/pull/76
- https://github.com/yetingli/PoCs/blob/main/CVE-2021-29063/Mpmath.md
- https://github.com/yetingli/SaveResults/blob/main/js/hosted-git-info.js
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/hosted-git-info
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3M5O55E7VUDMXCPQR6MQTOIFDKHP36AA/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MS2U6GLXQSRZJE2HVUAUMVFR2DWQLCZG/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIUX3XWY2K3MSO7QXMZXQQYAURARSPC5/
- https://github.com/fredrik-johansson/mpmath/commit/46d44c3c8f3244017fe1eb102d564eb4ab8ef750
- https://github.com/mpmath/mpmath/releases/tag/1.3.0