CVE-2021-32763

Summary

OpenProject is open-source, web-based project management software. In versions prior to 11.3.3, the MessagesController class of OpenProject has a quote method that implements the logic behind the Quote button in the discussion forums, and it uses a regex to strip &lt;pre&gt; tags from the message being quoted. The (.|\s) part can match a space character in two ways, so an unterminated &lt;pre&gt; tag containing n spaces causes Ruby's regex engine to backtrack to try 2<sup>n</sup> states in the NFA. This will result in a Regular Expression Denial of Service. The issue is fixed in OpenProject 11.3.3. As a workaround, one may install the patch manually.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
opfopenproject< 11.3.3affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-400: CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

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