CVE-2021-32816 (GCVE-0-2021-32816)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-14 17:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 23:33
VLAI
Title
Regular expression Denial of Service in ProtonMail
Summary
ProtonMail Web Client is the official AngularJS web client for the ProtonMail secure email service. ProtonMail Web Client before version 3.16.60 has a regular expression denial-of-service vulnerability. This was fixed in commit 6687fb. There is a full report available in the referenced GHSL-2021-027.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
2 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-20… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://github.com/ProtonMail/WebClient/commit/66… | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ProtonMail | WebClient |
Affected:
< 3.16.60
|
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Nomenclature
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