GHSA-rc47-6667-2j5j CVE-2022-25881
http-cache-semantics vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service
- Severity
- 7.5 / 10
- High · CVSS 3.1
- Exploit chance (EPSS)
- 1.61%
- Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Higher than 75.98% of scored vulnerabilities.
- Known exploited
- No
- Not in CISA's catalog
- Weakness
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
- Fix
- Available
- 2 packages have a fixed version
Description
http-cache semantics contains an Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity , leading to Denial of Service. This affects versions of the package http-cache-semantics before 4.1.1. The issue can be exploited via malicious request header values sent to a server, when that server reads the cache policy from the request using this library.
Affected versions
Maven
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| org.webjars.npm:http-cache-semantics | < 4.1.1 |
4.1.1 |
npm
| Package | Vulnerable | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| http-cache-semantics | < 4.1.1 |
4.1.1 |
How to fix
Move to the fixed version or later with your package manager, update the lockfile, and run your tests. If the package only arrives through another dependency, upgrade that dependency first. If none of its releases pulls a fixed version yet, force the version with your package manager's override.
org.webjars.npm:http-cache-semantics Maven → 4.1.1
- maven
<dependency><groupId>org.webjars.npm</groupId><artifactId>http-cache-semantics</artifactId><version>4.1.1</version></dependency>- gradle
implementation("org.webjars.npm:http-cache-semantics:4.1.1")
http-cache-semantics npm → 4.1.1
- npm
npm install http-cache-semantics@4.1.1- yarn
yarn add http-cache-semantics@4.1.1- pnpm
pnpm add http-cache-semantics@4.1.1
Severity breakdown
CVSS 3.1 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Weakness
CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.
How to prevent it
- Architecture and Design: Use regular expressions that do not support backtracking, e.g. by removing nested quantifiers.
- System Configuration: Set backtracking limits in the configuration of the regular expression implementation, such as PHP's pcre.backtrack_limit. Also consider limits on execution time for the process.
- Implementation: Do not use regular expressions with untrusted input. If regular expressions must be used, avoid using backtracking in the expression.
- Implementation: Limit the length of the input that the regular expression will process.
References
Advisories
Packages
Other links
- github.com/kornelski/http-cache-semantics/commit/560b2d8ef452bbba20ffed69dc155d…
- github.com/kornelski/http-cache-semantics/blob/master/index.js%23L83
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230622-0008
- security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3253332
- security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPCACHESEMANTICS-3248783
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230622-0008
Timeline
- Published
- Last updated by the source
- Latest EPSS score
Related advisories
| Advisory | Severity | Why it's related |
|---|---|---|
| GHSA-7wch-p9px-956x Forge: Regular expression denial of service in PEM decoding (pem.decode) | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-xcq7-p3pf-p88h OpenTelemetry Python: Unbounded tracestate parsing in opentelemetry-api | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-xgh8-jp6q-p5x8 Pillow: ReDoS in XbmImagePlugin: 512-byte file stalls Image.open() for minutes | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-rxp7-6hxx-x8q5 ip-address: Address6 matches a zone identifier in quadratic time ahead of its length limit, allowing a single long string to stall the process | Medium | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-r925-mgvr-h9cc Symfony: ReDoS in HeaderUtils::split() Reachable Through the Cache-Control Request Header | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-4ffr-jq9g-5ffx Nodemailer: Quadratic backtracking in SMTP AUTH mechanism detection regexes allows pre-auth remote denial of service | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-m64x-33q8-m5h7 GitPython parse_actor_and_date() is vulnerable to quadratic backtracking on malformed identity lines | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
| GHSA-2g7p-5934-q4w7 Payload: ReDoS in Multipart Content-Type Validation | High | Same weakness, CWE-1333 |
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