Inefficient regular expression complexity in cookiejar - CVE-2022-25901
Published: May 31, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU76691
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25901
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
cookiejar
cookiejar
Software vendor:
Bradley Farias
Bradley Farias
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
External links
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39/commits/eaa00021caf6ae09449dde826108153b578348e5
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COOKIEJAR-3149984
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/pull/39
- https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3176681
- https://github.com/bmeck/node-cookiejar/blob/master/cookiejar.js%23L73