Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting postfixadmin package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.43% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2304-POSTFIXADMIN-5466168
  • published25 Nov 2023
  • disclosed6 Jul 2022

Introduced: 6 Jul 2022

CVE-2022-31129  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:23.04 postfixadmin.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream postfixadmin package and not the postfixadmin package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:23.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

moment is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Affected versions of moment were found to use an inefficient parsing algorithm. Specifically using string-to-date parsing in moment (more specifically rfc2822 parsing, which is tried by default) has quadratic (N^2) complexity on specific inputs. Users may notice a noticeable slowdown is observed with inputs above 10k characters. Users who pass user-provided strings without sanity length checks to moment constructor are vulnerable to (Re)DoS attacks. The problem is patched in 2.29.4, the patch can be applied to all affected versions with minimal tweaking. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should consider limiting date lengths accepted from user input.

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