PT-2023-12181 · Octobox · Octobox

Nick Rolfe + 1 · Published 2023-02-20 · Updated 2023-03-01 · CVE-2021-32848

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Octobox versions prior to pull request 2807

Description Octobox is software for managing GitHub notifications. A user of the system can provide a specifically crafted search query string that will trigger a ReDoS vulnerability.

Recommendations For versions prior to pull request 2807, update to a version that includes the fix from pull request 2807 to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the ability for users to input specially crafted search query strings until the update is applied.

Exploit

Fix

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-770

CWE-1333

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-32848

Affected Products

Octobox

References · 7

• 🔥 https://github.com/octobox/octobox/blob/372a0da981dbf47319fed4116364118fdf09fcc3/lib/search_parser.rb#L5 · Exploit
• 🔥 https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-100-octobox-octobox · Exploit
• https://github.com/octobox/octobox/pull/2807 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-32848 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-32848 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/58535 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cvenotify/45272 · Telegram Post