VYPR
Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Oct 7, 2021· Updated Aug 4, 2024

Regular expression denial-of-service in Zulip

CVE-2021-41115

Description

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, or `main`.

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Affected products

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  • Zulip/Zulipllm-fuzzy2 versions
    <4.7+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: <4.7
    • (no CPE)range: < 4.7

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