Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU80336

Incorrect Regular Expression in prism - CVE-2021-23341

Published: September 4, 2023

Vulnerability identifier: #VU80336

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-2021-23341

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 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.

Affected software

prism
Storage Defender – Data Protect

How to mitigate CVE-2021-23341

Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..

prism - update to 1.23.0
Storage Defender – Data Protect - update to 1.3.0

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