Gerrit up to 3.12.9/3.13.8/3.14.2 Search Query Parser Query.g resource consumption

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Gerrit up to 3.12.9/3.13.8/3.14.2. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the file Query.g of the component Search Query Parser. The manipulation results in resource consumption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-87721. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

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A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in Gerrit up to 3.12.9/3.13.8/3.14.2. Affected is an unknown code block of the file Query.g of the component Search Query Parser. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. CVE summarizes:

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400 / CWE-407) in the ANTLR 3 search query parser (QueryParser / Query.g) in Gerrit Code Review versions 2.0.19 through 3.12.9, 3.13.0 through 3.13.8, and 3.14.0 through 3.14.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker (or an authenticated user if anonymous read access is disabled) to cause a persistent denial of service (CPU exhaustion and HTTP worker thread pool starvation requiring a server restart) via crafted search queries containing deeply nested parentheses sent to query evaluation endpoints (/changes/?q=, /accounts/?q=, /groups/?query=, /projects/?query=, /Documentation/?q=, /changes/{id}/query?expression=, or SSH gerrit query). Because syntactic predicates in conditionOr and conditionAnd recurse via conditionBase without memoization prior to capability or visibility checks and worker threads do not abort when the client disconnects, a small number of requests (such as 25 requests matching default httpd.maxThreads) can permanently pin all HTTP worker threads. This issue is fixed in Gerrit Code Review versions 3.12.10, 3.13.9, and 3.14.3.

The advisory is available at issues.gerritcodereview.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-87721 since 09/09/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading to version 3.12.10, 3.13.9 or 3.14.3 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• Gerrit

Version

• 3.12.0
• 3.12.1
• 3.12.2
• 3.12.3
• 3.12.4
• 3.12.5
• 3.12.6
• 3.12.7
• 3.12.8
• 3.12.9
• 3.13.0
• 3.13.1
• 3.13.2
• 3.13.3
• 3.13.4
• 3.13.5
• 3.13.6
• 3.13.7
• 3.13.8
• 3.14.0
• 3.14.1
• 3.14.2

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