CVE-2021-32848

Octobox ReDoS vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Feb 20, 2023
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
Reserved: May 12, 2021

Description

Octobox is software for managing GitHub notifications. Prior to pull request (PR) 2807, a user of the system can provide a specifically crafted search query string that will trigger a ReDoS vulnerability. This issue is fixed in PR 2807.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
octoboxoctobox	2807 to before 2807Affected

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-100-octobox-octobox/
https://github.com/octobox/octobox/pull/2807
https://github.com/octobox/octobox/blob/372a0da981dbf47319fed4116364118fdf09fcc3/lib/search_parser.rb#L5

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