Application hang via parse regex backtracking
Published Mar 27, 2024 · Updated Mar 14, 2025
Regular expression denial of service in domain-suffix 1.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to hang applications via crafted parse input. The parse method applies a hostname-matching expression with nested repetition to attacker-controlled text, allowing a long nonmatching string to drive excessive backtracking. Exposure requires an application to pass remotely supplied text to parse; successful exploitation stalls processing and hangs that application.
Summary
What happened
Regular expression denial of service in domain-suffix 1.0.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to hang applications via crafted parse input. The parse method applies a hostname-matching expression with nested repetition to attacker-controlled text, allowing a long nonmatching string to drive excessive backtracking. Exposure requires an application to pass remotely supplied text to parse; successful exploitation stalls processing and hangs that application.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2024-25354
- Published
- Mar 27, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 14, 2025
- Vendor
- Unknown vendor
- Product
- Unknown product
- Classifications
- CWE-1333, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 27, 2024CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Mar 14, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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