6.5

CVE-2019-16215

The Markdown parser in Zulip server before 2.0.5 used a regular expression vulnerable to exponential backtracking. A user who is logged into the server could send a crafted message causing the server to spend an effectively arbitrary amount of CPU time and stall the processing of future messages.

Data is provided by the National Vulnerability Database (NVD)
ZulipZulip Server Version < 2.0.5
Zu dieser CVE wurde keine CISA KEV oder CERT.AT-Warnung gefunden.
EPSS Metriken
Type Source Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.51% 0.638
CVSS Metriken
Source Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector string
nvd@nist.gov 6.5 2.8 3.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
nvd@nist.gov 4 8 2.9
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
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.