CVE-2021-29469: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

April 23, 2021 (updated April 7, 2025)

When a client is in monitoring mode, the regex begin used to detected monitor messages could cause exponential backtracking on some strings. This issue could lead to a denial of service. The issue is patched

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-29469

Code Behaviors & Features

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