Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Affecting com.vaadin:vaadin-server package, versions [,7.7.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-COMVAADIN-1085644
  • published 1 Oct 2020
  • disclosed 12 Sep 2020
  • credit jtomaszk

Introduced: 12 Sep 2020

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-400 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade com.vaadin:vaadin-server to version 7.7.22 or higher.

Overview

com.vaadin:vaadin-server is a Java framework for modern Java web applications.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS). EmailValidator catastrophic exponential-time regular expression

CVSS Scores

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Snyk

5.3 medium
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    None
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    Low