CVE-2020-28493 MEDIUM

CVE-2020-28493: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Vendor N/A
Product jinja2
Published February 1, 2021
Last update September 16, 2024

CVSS base score

5.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P

What the vulnerability does

01Description

This affects the package jinja2 from 0.0.0 and before 2.11.3. The ReDoS vulnerability is mainly due to the `_punctuation_re regex` operator and its use of multiple wildcards. The last wildcard is the most exploitable as it searches for trailing punctuation. This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 1, 2021 CVE published
September 16, 2024 Record updated