CVE-2022-31099: Uncontrolled Recursion in rulex

June 22, 2022 (updated July 12, 2022)

When parsing untrusted rulex expressions, the stack may overflow, possibly enabling a Denial of Service attack. This happens when parsing an expression with several hundred levels of nesting, causing the process to abort immediately.

This is a security concern for you, if

your service parses untrusted rulex expressions (expressions provided by an untrusted user), and
your service becomes unavailable when the process running rulex aborts due to a stack overflow.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-v78m-2q7v-fjqp
github.com/rulex-rs/rulex
github.com/rulex-rs/rulex/commit/60aa2dc03a22d69c8800fec81f99c96958a11363
github.com/rulex-rs/rulex/security/advisories/GHSA-v78m-2q7v-fjqp
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31099
rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2022-0030.html

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