Reported

May 21, 2022

Issued

June 26, 2022

Package

rulex (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• denial-of-service

Aliases

• CVE-2022-31100
• GHSA-8v9w-p43c-r885

References

• https://github.com/rulex-rs/rulex/security/advisories/GHSA-8v9w-p43c-r885

Patched

• >=0.4.3

Description

When parsing untrusted rulex expressions, rulex may panic, possibly enabling a Denial of Service attack. This happens when the expression contains a multi- byte UTF-8 code point in a string literal or after a backslash, because rulex tries to slice into the code point and panics as a result.

The flaw was corrected in commits fac6d58b25 and 330b3534e7 by using len_utf8() to derive character width in bytes instead of assuming ASCII encoding of 1 byte per char.

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.