CVE-2021-21317

Denial of Service in uap-core

Published Feb 16, 2021 CVSS 3.1 · 5.3 Medium EPSS 2.5% KEV · Not listed
Description
uap-core in an open-source npm package which contains the core of BrowserScope's original user agent string parser. In uap-core before version 0.11.0, some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings. This is fixed in version 0.11.0. Downstream packages such as uap-python, uap-ruby etc which depend upon uap-core follow different version schemes.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2021-0561 uap-core in an open-source npm package which contains the core of BrowserScope's original user agent string parser. In uap-core before version 0.11.0, some regexes are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously crafted long strings. This is fixed in version 0.11.0. Downstream packages such as uap-python, uap-ruby etc which depend upon uap-core follow different version schemes.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-p4pj-mg4r-x6v4 Denial of Service in uap-core
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitHub_M
Published
Updated
Aug 3, 2024, 6:09 PM
Reserved
Dec 22, 2020, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Feb 16, 2021, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 3:35 AM