CVE-2022-31781 (GCVE-0-2022-31781)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-13 07:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 07:26
VLAI
Title
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in ContentType.java. (GHSL-2022-022)
Summary
Apache Tapestry up to version 5.8.1 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the way it handles Content Types. Specially crafted Content Types may cause catastrophic backtracking, taking exponential time to complete. Specifically, this is about the regular expression used on the parameter of the org.apache.tapestry5.http.ContentType class. Apache Tapestry 5.8.2 has a fix for this vulnerability. Notice the vulnerability cannot be triggered by web requests in Tapestry code alone. It would only happen if there's some non-Tapestry codepath passing some outside input to the ContentType class constructor.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1260 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache Tapestry Affected: 5.8.1 , < 5.8.1 (custom)
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Credits
CodeQL team members [@atorralba (Tony Torralba)](https://github.com/atorralba) and [@joefarebrother (Joseph Farebrother)](https://github.com/joefarebrother).
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