CVE-2018-20164
Published: 13 February 2019
An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0. A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to a value containing a long digit string. (The UAP-Core project contains the vulnerability, propagating to all implementations.)
Priority
Severity score breakdown
Parameter | Value |
---|---|
Base score | 5.3 |
Attack vector | Network |
Attack complexity | Low |
Privileges required | None |
User interaction | None |
Scope | Unchanged |
Confidentiality | None |
Integrity impact | None |
Availability impact | Low |
Vector | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-20164
- https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/commit/010ccdc7303546cd22b9da687c29f4a996990014
- https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/commit/156f7e12b215bddbaf3df4514c399d683e6cdadc
- https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-009-uaparser/
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian