Upstream information

CVE-2021-41186 at MITRE

Description

Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure. The parser_apache2 plugin in Fluentd v0.14.14 to v1.14.1 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability. A broken apache log with a certain pattern of string can spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This issue is patched in version 1.14.2 There are two workarounds available. Either don't use parser_apache2 for parsing logs (which cannot guarantee generated by Apache), or put patched version of parser_apache2.rb into /etc/fluent/plugin directory (or any other directories specified by the environment variable `FLUENT_PLUGIN` or `--plugin` option of fluentd).

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Does not affect SUSE products

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 5.9
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1192262 [NEW]

No SUSE Security Announcements cross referenced.

List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • ruby3.1-rubygem-fluentd >= 1.14.4-1.1
  • ruby3.2-rubygem-fluentd >= 1.15.3-1.4
Patchnames:
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA ruby3.1-rubygem-fluentd-1.14.4-1.1
openSUSE Tumbleweed GA ruby3.2-rubygem-fluentd-1.15.3-1.4


SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Sat Oct 30 02:02:27 2021
CVE page last modified: Sun Aug 27 09:49:16 2023