pillarjs path-to-regexp up to 0.1.11 redos

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in pillarjs path-to-regexp up to 0.1.11. It has been rated as problematic. The impacted element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to redos. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-52798. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

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A vulnerability was found in pillarjs path-to-regexp up to 0.1.11. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a redos vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-1333. The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.

It is possible to read the advisory at github.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-52798 since 11/15/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1449.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 216666 (CBL Mariner 2.0 Security Update: reaper (CVE-2024-52798)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 0.1.12 eliminates this vulnerability. Applying the patch f01c26a013b1889f0c217c643964513acf17f6a4 is able to eliminate this problem. The bugfix is ready for download at github.com. The best possible mitigation is suggested to be upgrading to the latest version.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (216666). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• pillarjs

Name

• path-to-regexp

Version

• 0.1.0
• 0.1.1
• 0.1.2
• 0.1.3
• 0.1.4
• 0.1.5
• 0.1.6
• 0.1.7
• 0.1.8
• 0.1.9
• 0.1.10
• 0.1.11

License

• open-source

Website

• Product: https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp/

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