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Debian: CVE-2018-20164: uap-core -- security update

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Feb 13, 2019

Added

Jul 30, 2024

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in regex.yaml (aka regexes.yaml) in UA-Parser UAP-Core before 0.6.0. A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) issue allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to a value containing a long digit string. (The UAP-Core project contains the vulnerability, propagating to all implementations.)

Solution

debian-upgrade-uap-core

References

CVE-2018-20164
https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2018-20164
CWE-185
EUVD-EUVD-2019-0379
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2019-0379

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