Source: uap-core
Version: 20190213-2
Severity: grave
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for uap-core.

CVE-2020-5243[0]:
| uap-core before 0.7.3 is vulnerable to a denial of service attack when
| processing crafted User-Agent strings. Some regexes are vulnerable to
| regular expression denial of service (REDoS) due to overlapping
| capture groups. This allows remote attackers to overload a server by
| setting the User-Agent header in an HTTP(S) request to maliciously
| crafted long strings. This has been patched in uap-core 0.7.3.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-5243
    https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-5243
[1] 
https://github.com/ua-parser/uap-core/security/advisories/GHSA-cmcx-xhr8-3w9p

Regards,
Salvatore

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