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GHSA-fhg7-m89q-25r3
No affected components available
Description:
A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability has been discovered in ua-parser-js.
Impact:
This vulnerability bypass the library's MAX_LENGTH input limit prevention. By crafting a very-very-long user-agent string with specific pattern, an attacker can turn the script to get stuck processing for a very long time which results in a denial of service (DoS) condition.
Affected Versions:
From version 0.7.30 to before versions 0.7.33 / 1.0.33.
Patches:
A patch has been released to remove the vulnerable regular expression, update to version 0.7.33 / 1.0.33 or later.
References:
Regular expression Denial of Service - ReDoS
Credits:
Thanks to @Snyk who first reported the issue.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is easy for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. An attacker does not need any special privileges or access rights. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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