CVE-2019-16215 (GCVE-0-2019-16215)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-09-18 11:07
Modified
2024-08-05 01:10
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
The Markdown parser in Zulip server before 2.0.5 used a regular expression vulnerable to exponential backtracking. A user who is logged into the server could send a crafted message causing the server to spend an effectively arbitrary amount of CPU time and stall the processing of future messages.
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