CVE-2021-33580

CVE-2021-33580: regex injection leading to DoS

Vendor Apache Software Foundation
Product Apache Roller
Weakness CWE-400
Published August 18, 2021
Last update August 3, 2024

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What the vulnerability does

01Description

User controlled `request.getHeader("Referer")`, `request.getRequestURL()` and `request.getQueryString()` are used to build and run a regex expression. The attacker doesn't have to use a browser and may send a specially crafted Referer header programmatically. Since the attacker controls the string and the regex pattern he may cause a ReDoS by regex catastrophic backtracking on the server side. This problem has been fixed in Roller 6.0.2.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 18, 2021 CVE published
August 3, 2024 Record updated