CVE-2023-28628CWE-706

`authority-regex` returns the wrong authority in lambdaisland/uri

Medium · published March 27, 2023

CVSS v3.1
5.4
EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

lambdaisland/uri is a pure Clojure/ClojureScript URI library. In versions prior to 1.14.120 `authority-regex` allows an attacker to send malicious URLs to be parsed by the `lambdaisland/uri` and return the wrong authority. This issue is similar to but distinct from CVE-2020-8910. The regex in question doesn't handle the backslash (`\`) character in the username correctly, leading to a wrong output. ex. a payload of `https://example.com\\@google.com` would return that the host is `google.com`, but the correct host should be `example.com`. Given that the library returns the wrong authority this may be abused to bypass host restrictions depending on how the library is used in an application. Users are advised to upgrade. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.4 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00548 · 45.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-706 · Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference
Published
2023-03-27T20:20Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAR 20:20Z
    `authority-regex` returns the wrong authority in lambdaisland/uri
    cvelistv5