Vulnerability Details : CVE-2021-32848
Octobox is software for managing GitHub notifications. Prior to pull request (PR) 2807, a user of the system can provide a specifically crafted search query string that will trigger a ReDoS vulnerability. This issue is fixed in PR 2807.
Products affected by CVE-2021-32848
- cpe:2.3:a:octobox_project:octobox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2021-32848
0.14%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 49 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2021-32848
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
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7.5
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HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
3.9
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3.6
|
NIST | |
7.5
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HIGH | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
3.9
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3.6
|
GitHub, Inc. |
CWE ids for CVE-2021-32848
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The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.Assigned by: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)
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The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.Assigned by: nvd@nist.gov (Primary)
References for CVE-2021-32848
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https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-100-octobox-octobox/
GHSL-2021-100: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) in Octobox - CVE-2021-32848 | GitHub Security LabExploit;Third Party Advisory
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https://github.com/octobox/octobox/pull/2807
Rewrite search parser to avoid potential ReDoS attack by andrew · Pull Request #2807 · octobox/octobox · GitHubPatch
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https://github.com/octobox/octobox/blob/372a0da981dbf47319fed4116364118fdf09fcc3/lib/search_parser.rb#L5
octobox/search_parser.rb at 372a0da981dbf47319fed4116364118fdf09fcc3 · octobox/octobox · GitHubExploit;Product
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