#VU79836 Inefficient regular expression complexity in configobj - CVE-2023-26112
Published: August 22, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU79836
Vulnerability risk: 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-2023-26112
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
configobj
configobj
Software vendor:
Differently Sized Kittens
Differently Sized Kittens
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. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability.