GitHub Advisoryadvisory · RubyGems
GHSA-qxmr-qxh6-2cc9 ReDos vulnerability on guest checkout email validation
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2021-43805
- Ecosystem
- RubyGems
- Packages
- solidus_core
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-1333
- Reviewed
- 2021-12-07
Affected packages
• RubyGems solidus_core: < 2.11.13 → fixed in 2.11.13
• RubyGems solidus_core: >= 3.0.0, < 3.0.4 → fixed in 3.0.4
• RubyGems solidus_core: >= 3.1.0, < 3.1.4 → fixed in 3.1.4
Description
Impact
Denial of service vulnerability that could be exploited during a guest checkout. The regular expression used to validate a guest order's email was subject to exponential backtracking through a fragment like `a.a.`.
Before the patch, it can be reproduced in the console like this:
```ruby
irb(main)> Spree::EmailValidator::EMAIL_REGEXP.match "[email protected].@"
processing time: 54.293660s
=> nil
```
To reproduce in the browser, fill in the "Customer Email" field with that fake email address during a guest checkout. Before that, you should open the browser dev tools and change the `type` attribute for that field from `email` to `text`. After entering a fake address and pressing the "Save & Continue" button, the browser will take a long term to perform the request before showing an error message for the invalid address. Eventually, making the email string even longer could lead to the exhaustion of server resources.
Patches
Versions 3.1.4, 3.0.4, and 2.11.13 have been patched to use a different regular expression.
There's an improbable chance that some orders in your system end up having associated an email address that is no longer valid. We've added a task to check precisely that:
```bash
bin/rails solidus:check_orders_with_invalid_email
```
The above will print information for every affected order if any.
Workarounds
If a prompt upgrade is not an option, please, add the following to `config/application.rb`:
```ruby
config.after_initialize do
Spree::EmailValidator.send(:remove_const, :EMAIL_REGEXP)
Spree::EmailValidator::EMAIL_REGEXP = URI::MailTo::EMAIL_REGEXP
end
```
References
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ReDoS
• https://snyk.io/blog/redos-and-catastrophic-backtracking/
For more information
If you have any questions or comments about this advisory:
• Open an issue or a discussion in Solidus.
• Email us at [email protected]
• Contact the core team on Slack
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2021-43805 Solidus is a free, open-source ecommerce platform built on Rails. vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity weakness
References
- https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/security/advisories/GHSA-qxmr-qxh6-2cc9 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-43805 advisory
- https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/commit/6be174c955fad84017ca67589c676526bc5ade71 web
- https://github.com/solidusio/solidus/commit/9867153e01e3c3b898cdbcedd7b43375ea922401 web
- https://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/solidus_core/CVE-2021-43805.yml web
- https://github.com/solidusio/solidus package