GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p
Denial of Service in uap-core when processing crafted User-Agent strings
Quick fix
GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p — uap-core: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.
npm install uap-core@0.7.3Details
### 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-core to >= v0.7.3
Downstream packages such as uap-python, uap-ruby etc which depend upon uap-core follow different version schemes.
### Details
Each vulnerable regular expression reported here contains 3 overlapping capture groups. Backtracking has approximately cubic time complexity with respect to the length of the user-agent string.
#### Regex 1:
``` \bSmartWatch *\( *([^;]+) *; *([^;]+) *; ```
is vulnerable in portion ` *([^;]+) *` and can be attacked with
```python "SmartWatch(" + (" " * 3500) + "z" ``` e.g. ``` SmartWatch( z ```
#### Regex 2:
``` ; *([^;/]+) Build[/ ]Huawei(MT1-U06|[A-Z]+\d+[^\);]+)[^\);]*\) ```
is vulnerable in portion `\d+[^\);]+[^\);]*` and can be attacked with
```python ";A Build HuaweiA" + ("4" * 3500) + "z" ```
#### Regex 3:
``` (HbbTV)/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ \([^;]*; *(LG)E *; *([^;]*) *;[^;]*;[^;]*;\) ```
is vulnerable in portion ` *([^;]*) *` and can be attacked with
```python "HbbTV/0.0.0 (;LGE;" + (" " * 3500) + "z" ```
#### Regex 4:
``` (HbbTV)/[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+ \([^;]*; *(?:CUS:([^;]*)|([^;]+)) *; *([^;]*) *;.*; ```
is vulnerable in portions ` *(?:CUS:([^;]*)|([^;]+)) *` and ` *([^;]*) *` and can be attacked with
```python "HbbTV/0.0.0 (;CUS:;" + (" " * 3500) + "z" "HbbTV/0.0.0 (;" + (" " * 3500) + "z" "HbbTV/0.0.0 (;z;" + (" " * 3500) + "z" ```
Reported by Ben Caller @bcaller
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References
- https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/security/advisories/GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p[WEB]
- https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-ruby/security/advisories/GHSA-pcqq-5962-hvcw[WEB]
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-5243[ADVISORY]
- https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/commit/0afd61ed85396a3b5316f18bfd1edfaadf8e88e1[WEB]
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/user_agent_parser/CVE-2020-5243.yml[WEB]