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GHSA-PCQQ-5962-HVCW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2020-03-10 18:02 – Updated: 2025-05-22 17:12

Summary

Denial of Service in uap-core when processing crafted User-Agent strings

Details

Impact

Some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings.

Patches

Please update uap-ruby to >= v2.6.0

For more information

https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/security/advisories/GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p

Reported in uap-core by Ben Caller @bcaller

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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-pcqq-5962-hvcw",
  "modified": "2025-05-22T17:12:55Z",
  "published": "2020-03-10T18:02:49Z",
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GSD-2020-5243

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2020-03-10 00:00

Details

### Impact Some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings. ### Patches Please update `uap-ruby` to >= v2.6.0 ### For more information https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/security/advisories/GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p

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CVE-2020-5243

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