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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2021-41119 EUVD-2021-28250

DoS vulnerabiliity in wire-server json parser

Published Apr 13, 2022 · Updated Apr 22, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Wire-server is the system server for the wire back-end services. Releases prior to v2022-03-01 are subject to a denial of service attack via a crafted object causing a hash collision. This collision causes the server to spend at least quadratic time parsing it which can lead to a denial of service for a heavily used server. The issue has been fixed in wire-server 2022-03-01 and is already deployed on all Wire managed services. On premise instances of wire-server need to be updated to 2022-03-01, so that their backends are no longer affected. There are no known workarounds for this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wireapp wire-server < v2022-03-01 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS haskell-aeson No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS haskell-aeson No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS haskell-aeson No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS haskell-aeson No fix yet —

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