CVE-2021-21317
Published: 16 February 2021
uap-core in an open-source npm package which contains the core of BrowserScope's original user agent string parser. In uap-core before version 0.11.0, some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings. This is fixed in version 0.11.0. Downstream packages such as uap-python, uap-ruby etc which depend upon uap-core follow different version schemes.
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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uap-core Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Does not exist
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| focal |
Needs triage
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| groovy |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| hirsute |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| impish |
Ignored
(end of life)
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| jammy |
Needed
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| kinetic |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
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| lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needed)
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| mantic |
Needed
|
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| trusty |
Does not exist
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| upstream |
Released
(v0.11.0)
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| xenial |
Does not exist
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Patches: upstream: https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/commit/dc9925d458214cfe87b93e35346980612f6ae96c |
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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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L |