CVE-2020-28493

Publication date 1 February 2021

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

This affects the package jinja2 from 0.0.0 and before 2.11.3. The ReDoS vulnerability is mainly due to the `_punctuation_re regex` operator and its use of multiple wildcards. The last wildcard is the most exploitable as it searches for trailing punctuation. This issue can be mitigated by Markdown to format user content instead of the urlize filter, or by implementing request timeouts and limiting process memory.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
jinja2 23.10 mantic
Not affected
23.04 lunar
Not affected
22.10 kinetic
Not affected
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.10 groovy Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.10.1-2ubuntu0.2
18.04 LTS bionic
16.04 LTS xenial
14.04 LTS trusty

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Notes


sbeattie

regular expression DoS

Patch details

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Package Patch details
jinja2

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.3 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact Low
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L