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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVE-2021-29061

High
7.5/10

Summary

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDOS) vulnerability was discovered in Vfsjfilechooser2 before 0.2.9, which occurs when the application attempts to validate crafted URIs.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

The software allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published