Inefficient regular expression complexity in Mailform Pro CGI - CVE-2023-40599
Published: August 25, 2023
Vulnerability identifier: #VU80013
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40599
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
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 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.
This vulnerability affects the product when the following functions are enabled:
- call/call.js
- prefcodeadv/search.cgi
- estimate/estimate.js
- search/search.js
- suggest/suggest.js
- coupon/coupon.js
Affected software
Mailform Pro CGI
How to mitigate CVE-2023-40599
Install update from vendor's website.