What is CVE-2021-38244?

CVE-2021-38244 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cbioportal Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-12-16.

How severe is CVE-2021-38244?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Cbioportal Project

CVE-2021-38244

A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability exits in cbioportal 3.6.21 and older via a POST request to /ProteinArraySignificanceTest.json.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Cbioportal_project Cbioportal
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)
cve@mitre.org (Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-38244?: CVE-2021-38244 is a high-severity vulnerability in Cbioportal Project, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2021-12-16.
How severe is CVE-2021-38244?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.