Incorrect Regular Expression in Jinja - CVE-2020-28493

 

Incorrect Regular Expression in Jinja - CVE-2020-28493

Published: February 1, 2021 / Updated: February 9, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU50430
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28493
CWE-ID: CWE-185
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The vulnerability exists due to incorrect subpattern applied to untrusted input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a regular expression DoS (ReDOS) attack.


Affected software

Jinja
Arch Linux
Gentoo Linux
SUSE CaaS Platform
SUSE Manager Proxy
SUSE Manager Retail Branch Server
SUSE Manager Server
SUSE Enterprise Storage
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64
Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems
Ubuntu
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Basesystem
SUSE Linux Enterprise Module for Python2
openEuler
Fedora
Migration Toolkit for Containers
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S)
IBM Qradar SIEM
Ansible Automation Platform
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Qradar Advisor
Juniper Cloud Native Router
python-jinja2 (Ubuntu package)
python3-jinja2 (Ubuntu package)
python-jinja2 (Red Hat package)
python3-Jinja2
python2-Jinja2
python-jinja2
python3-jinja2
python-jinja2-help
python2-jinja2
mingw-python-jinja2
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics
QRadar Assistant
Junos cRPD

How to mitigate CVE-2020-28493

Install updates from vendor's website.

Jinja - update to 2.11.3
Migration Toolkit for Containers - update to 1.7.4
Cloud Pak for Security (CP4S) - update to 1.10.7.0
IBM Qradar SIEM - update to 7.5.0 Update Pack 8
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - update to 10.1.17.1
python-jinja2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
python3-jinja2 (Ubuntu package) - addressed in versions Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only), 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2, 3.0.3-1ubuntu0.1, 3.1.2-1ubuntu0.23.10.1
IBM Security QRadar Network Threat Analytics - update to 1.1.0
Qradar Advisor - update to 2.6.2
python-jinja2 (Red Hat package) - update to 2.10.1-3.el8
python3-Jinja2 - update to 2.10.1-3.10.2
python2-Jinja2 - update to 2.10.1-3.10.2
python-jinja2 - update to 2.11.2-2
python3-jinja2 - update to 2.11.2-2
python-jinja2-help - update to 2.11.2-2
python2-jinja2 - update to 2.11.2-2
mingw-python-jinja2 - update to 2.11.3-1.fc33
QRadar Assistant - update to 3.7.0
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform - update to 4.11.0
Juniper Cloud Native Router - update to 23.4R1
Junos cRPD - update to 23.4R1

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