CVE-2022-31781

Severity
7.5HIGH
EPSS
1.0%
top 22.83%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJul 13
Latest updateJul 14

Description

Apache Tapestry up to version 5.8.1 is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the way it handles Content Types. Specially crafted Content Types may cause catastrophic backtracking, taking exponential time to complete. Specifically, this is about the regular expression used on the parameter of the org.apache.tapestry5.http.ContentType class. Apache Tapestry 5.8.2 has a fix for this vulnerability. Notice the vulnerability cannot be triggered by web requests in Tapestry code

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages3 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
OSV
Apache Tapestry 5.8.1 vulnerable to ReDoS via Content Types causing catastrophic backtracking2022-07-14
GHSA
Apache Tapestry 5.8.1 vulnerable to ReDoS via Content Types causing catastrophic backtracking2022-07-14
CVEList
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in ContentType.java. (GHSL-2022-022)2022-07-13
CVE-2022-31781 (HIGH CVSS 7.5) | Apache Tapestry up to version 5.8.1 | cvebase.io