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Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVE-2023-26112

Medium
5.9/10

Summary

All versions of the package configobj are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the "validate" function, using "(.+?)\((.*)\)". **Note:** This is only exploitable in the case of a developer, putting the offending value in a server side configuration file.

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

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.

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  • Published