GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8

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Source
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8
Import Source
https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2024/07/GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8/GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8.json
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https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/GHSA-jmp3-39vp-fwg8
Aliases
Published
2024-07-11T13:21:42Z
Modified
2024-11-19T05:35:34.771491Z
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
  • 7.1 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
Wagtail regular expression denial-of-service via search query parsing
Details

Impact

A bug in Wagtail's parse_query_string would result in it taking a long time to process suitably crafted inputs. When used to parse sufficiently long strings of characters without a space, parse_query_string would take an unexpectedly large amount of time to process, resulting in a denial of service.

In an initial Wagtail installation, the vulnerability can be exploited by any Wagtail admin user. It cannot be exploited by end users. If your Wagtail site has a custom search implementation which uses parse_query_string, it may be exploitable by other users (e.g. unauthenticated users).

Patches

Patched versions have been released as Wagtail 5.2.6, 6.0.6 and 6.1.3.

This vulnerability affects all unpatched versions from Wagtail 2.0 onwards.

Workarounds

Site owners who are unable to upgrade to a patched version can limit the length of search terms passed to parse_query_string. Whilst the performance characteristics will depend on your hosting environment, 1000 characters has been shown to still be fairly fast, without triggering this vulnerability.

No workaround is available for the Wagtail admin usage.

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to Jake Howard for reporting this issue.

For more information

If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:

Database specific 
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    "nvd_published_at": "2024-07-11T16:15:02Z",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-1333"
    ],
    "severity": "HIGH",
    "github_reviewed": true,
    "github_reviewed_at": "2024-07-11T13:21:42Z"
}
References

Affected packages

PyPI / wagtail

Package

Name
wagtail
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/wagtail

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.0
Fixed
6.0.6

Affected versions

6.*

6.0
6.0.1
6.0.2
6.0.3
6.0.4
6.0.5

PyPI / wagtail

Package

Name
wagtail
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/wagtail

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
6.1
Fixed
6.1.3

Affected versions

6.*

6.1
6.1.1
6.1.2

PyPI / wagtail

Package

Name
wagtail
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/wagtail

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
2.0
Fixed
5.2.6

Affected versions

2.*

2.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.1rc1
2.1rc2
2.1
2.1.1
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.2rc1
2.2rc2
2.2
2.2.1
2.2.2
2.3rc1
2.3rc2
2.3
2.4rc1
2.4
2.5rc1
2.5
2.5.1
2.5.2
2.6rc1
2.6
2.6.1
2.6.2
2.6.3
2.7rc1
2.7rc2
2.7
2.7.1
2.7.2
2.7.3
2.7.4
2.8rc1
2.8
2.8.1
2.8.2
2.9rc1
2.9
2.9.1
2.9.2
2.9.3
2.10rc1
2.10rc2
2.10
2.10.1
2.10.2
2.11rc1
2.11
2.11.1
2.11.2
2.11.3
2.11.4
2.11.5
2.11.6
2.11.7
2.11.8
2.11.9
2.12rc1
2.12
2.12.1
2.12.2
2.12.3
2.12.4
2.12.5
2.12.6
2.13rc1
2.13rc2
2.13rc3
2.13
2.13.1
2.13.2
2.13.3
2.13.4
2.13.5
2.14rc1
2.14
2.14.1
2.14.2
2.15rc1
2.15rc2
2.15
2.15.1
2.15.2
2.15.3
2.15.4
2.15.5
2.15.6
2.16rc1
2.16rc2
2.16
2.16.1
2.16.2
2.16.3

3.*

3.0rc1
3.0rc2
3.0rc3
3.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3

4.*

4.0rc1
4.0rc2
4.0
4.0.1
4.0.2
4.0.3
4.0.4
4.1rc1
4.1
4.1.1
4.1.2
4.1.3
4.1.4
4.1.5
4.1.6
4.1.7
4.1.8
4.1.9
4.2rc1
4.2
4.2.1
4.2.2
4.2.3
4.2.4

5.*

5.0rc1
5.0
5.0.1
5.0.2
5.0.3
5.0.4
5.0.5
5.1rc1
5.1
5.1.1
5.1.2
5.1.3
5.2rc1
5.2
5.2.1
5.2.2
5.2.3
5.2.4
5.2.5