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CVE-2018-20164
Published: Feb 13, 2019
Modified: Aug 5, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0. A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to a value containing a long digit string. (The UAP-Core project contains the vulnerability, propagating to all implementations.)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
https://www.x41-dsec.de/lab/advisories/x41-2018-009-uaparser/
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/issues/332
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