CVE-2021-41119
Publication date 13 April 2022
Last updated 26 August 2025
Ubuntu priority
Cvss 3 Severity Score
Description
Wire-server is the system server for the wire back-end services. Releases prior to v2022-03-01 are subject to a denial of service attack via a crafted object causing a hash collision. This collision causes the server to spend at least quadratic time parsing it which can lead to a denial of service for a heavily used server. The issue has been fixed in wire-server 2022-03-01 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On premise instances of wire-server need to be updated to 2022-03-01, so that their backends are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue.
Status
| Package | Ubuntu Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
| haskell-aeson | 25.10 questing |
Not affected
|
| 24.04 LTS noble |
Not affected
|
|
| 22.04 LTS jammy |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 20.04 LTS focal |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 18.04 LTS bionic |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 16.04 LTS xenial |
Vulnerable
|
|
| 14.04 LTS trusty | Ignored end of standard support, was needed |
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score |
|
| 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 |
References
Other references
- https://cs-syd.eu/posts/2021-09-11-json-vulnerability
- https://github.com/haskell/aeson/issues/864
- https://hackage.haskell.org/package/aeson-2.0.1.0
- https://github.com/haskell/aeson/commit/582a844d8028f62e409048a4caae187b27e8e697 (v2.0.1.0)
- https://github.com/wireapp/wire-server/security/advisories/GHSA-phxv-pffh-fq2r
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-41119