CVE-2019-16215

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-16215
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-16215.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-16215
Published
2019-09-18T12:15:10Z
Modified
2025-01-08T10:23:59.175996Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/zulip/zulip

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/zulip/zulip
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
Fixed

Affected versions

1.*

1.3.0
1.3.1
1.3.10
1.3.11
1.3.12
1.3.13
1.3.2
1.3.3
1.3.4
1.3.5
1.3.6
1.3.7
1.3.8
1.3.9
1.4.0
1.5.0
1.6.0
1.7.0
1.8.0
1.8.0-rc1
1.9.0
1.9.0-rc2
1.9.0-rc3

2.*

2.0.0
2.0.0-rc1
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4

enterprise-1.*

enterprise-1.1.5
enterprise-1.2.0