CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2023-29487

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Dec 21, 2023 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
9.1
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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An issue was discovered in Heimdal Thor agent versions 3.4.2 and before on Windows and 2.6.9 and before on macOS, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (DoS) via the Threat To Process Correlation threat prevention module. NOTE: Heimdal asserts this is not a valid vulnerability. Their DNS Security for Endpoint solution includes an optional feature to provide extra information on the originating process that made a DNS request. The lack of process identification in DNS logs is therefore falsely categorized as a DoS issue.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
ThorHeimdalsecurity*3.5.3 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References