Vulnerability Details CVE-2021-41115
Zulip is an open source team chat server. In affected versions Zulip allows organization administrators on a server to configure "linkifiers" that automatically create links from messages that users send, detected via arbitrary regular expressions. Malicious organization administrators could subject the server to a denial-of-service via regular expression complexity attacks; most simply, by configuring a quadratic-time regular expression in a linkifier, and sending messages that exploited it. A regular expression attempted to parse the user-provided regexes to verify that they were safe from ReDoS -- this was both insufficient, as well as _itself_ subject to ReDoS if the organization administrator entered a sufficiently complex invalid regex. Affected users should [upgrade to the just-released Zulip 4.7](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-to-a-release), or [`main`](https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/upgrade-or-modify.html#upgrading-from-a-git-repository).
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.005
EPSS Ranking 65.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 4.3
CVSS v2 Score 4.0
Products affected by CVE-2021-41115
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:0.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.11
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.12
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.13
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.14
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.15
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.16
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.17
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.18
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.19
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.20
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.21
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.22
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.24
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.25
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.26
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.27
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.0.29
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.10
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.11
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.12
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.13
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.6
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.7
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.3.9
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.5.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.5.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.5.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.6.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.7.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.7.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.7.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.8.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.8.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.9.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.9.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:1.9.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.6
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.7
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.0.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.33
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.6
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.7
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.1.8
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.3.35
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:2.7.39
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.0.40
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.1.41
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.2.42
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.3.43
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:3.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.0
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.1
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.2
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.3
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.4
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.5
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cpe:2.3:a:zulip:zulip:4.6