CVE-2021-32848

high

Description

Octobox is software for managing GitHub notifications. Prior to pull request (PR) 2807, a user of the system can provide a specifically crafted search query string that will trigger a ReDoS vulnerability. This issue is fixed in PR 2807.

References

https://securitylab.github.com/advisories/GHSL-2021-100-octobox-octobox/

https://github.com/octobox/octobox/pull/2807

https://github.com/octobox/octobox/blob/372a0da981dbf47319fed4116364118fdf09fcc3/lib/search_parser.rb#L5

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-02-20

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H