CVE-2022-24713
What it is
regex is an implementation of regular expressions for the Rust language. The regex crate features built-in mitigations to prevent denial of service attacks caused by untrusted regexes, or untrusted input matched by trusted regexes. Those (tunable) mitigations already provide sane defaults to prevent attacks. This guarantee is documented and it's considered part of the crate's API. Unfortunately a bug was discovered in the mitigations designed to prevent untrusted regexes to take an arbitrary amount of time during parsing, and it's possible to craft regexes that bypass such mitigations. This makes it possible to perform denial of service attacks by sending specially crafted regexes to services accepting user-controlled, untrusted regexes. All versions of the regex crate before or equal to 1.5.4 are affected by this issue. The fix is include starting from regex 1.5.5. All users accepting user-controlled regexes are recommended to upgrade immediately to the latest version of the regex crate. Unfortunately there is no fixed set of problematic regexes, as there are practically infinite regexes that could be crafted to exploit this vulnerability. Because of this, it us not recommend to deny known problematic regexes.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited over the network without logging in. High risk of service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 14.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS). Higher than most.
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 14.5% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 7.5 HIGH (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 14.5% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled resource consumption
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- rust-lang Regex < 1.5.5
- Fedoraproject Fedora 34
- Fedoraproject Fedora 35
- Fedoraproject Fedora 36
- Debian Linux 9.0
- Debian Linux 10.0
- Debian Linux 11.0
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- None
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/commit/ae70b41d4f46641dbc45c7a4f87954aea356283e
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/security/advisories/GHSA-m5pq-gvj9-9vr8
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/commit/ae70b41d4f46641dbc45c7a4f87954aea356283e
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/security/advisories/GHSA-m5pq-gvj9-9vr8
References
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/commit/ae70b41d4f46641dbc45c7a4f87954aea356283e
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/security/advisories/GHSA-m5pq-gvj9-9vr8
- https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/NcNNL1Jq7Yw
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JANLZ3JXWJR7FSHE57K66UIZUIJZI67T/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3YB7CURSG64CIPCDPNMGPE4UU24AB6H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDOWTHNVGBOP2HN27PUFIGRYNSNDTYRJ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-08
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5113
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5118
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/commit/ae70b41d4f46641dbc45c7a4f87954aea356283e
- https://github.com/rust-lang/regex/security/advisories/GHSA-m5pq-gvj9-9vr8
- https://groups.google.com/g/rustlang-security-announcements/c/NcNNL1Jq7Yw
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00003.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/04/msg00009.html
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JANLZ3JXWJR7FSHE57K66UIZUIJZI67T/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/O3YB7CURSG64CIPCDPNMGPE4UU24AB6H/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PDOWTHNVGBOP2HN27PUFIGRYNSNDTYRJ/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-08
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-14
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5113
- https://www.debian.org/security/2022/dsa-5118