CVE-2021-41119

DoS vulnerabiliity in wire-server json parser

HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: April 13, 2022 at 06:25 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:07 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsWire ServerWire Server

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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
SSVC
PoC

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 2022-03-01
Affected range stops below 2022-03-01, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
v < 2022-03-01
Affected range stops below 2022-03-01, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

References (2)

SSVC — Action Prioritization

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CVSS

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-400

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