CVE-2021-41115CWE-1333CWE-400

Regular expression denial-of-service in Zulip

Medium · published October 7, 2021

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
77.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Zulip is an open source team chat server. In affected versions Zulip allows organization administrators on a server to configure "linkifiers" that automatically create links from messages that users send, detected via arbitrary regular expressions. Malicious organization administrators could subject the server to a denial-of-service via regular expression complexity attacks; most simply, by configuring a quadratic-time regular expression in a linkifier, and sending messages that exploited it. A regular expression attempted to parse the user-provided regexes to verify that they were safe from ReDoS -- this was both insufficient, as well as _itself_ subject to ReDoS if the organization administrator entered a sufficiently complex invalid regex. Affected users should [upgrade to the just-released Zulip 4.7](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-to-a-release), or [`main`](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-from-a-git-repository).

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.01737 · 77.6th percentile
Weaknesses
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity; CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Published
2021-10-07T22:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 07 OCT 22:20Z
    Regular expression denial-of-service in Zulip
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