An issue in alanclarke URLite v.3.1.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) via a crafted payload to the parsing function.
The product uses a regular expression with an inefficient, possibly exponential worst-case computational complexity that consumes excessive CPU cycles.
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Urlite | Alanclarke | * | 3.1.0 (including) |
Attackers can create crafted inputs that
intentionally cause the regular expression to use
excessive backtracking in a way that causes the CPU
consumption to spike.