CVE-2021-41186
5.9 MEDIUMFluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure
Published: 2021-10-29 · Last updated: 2026-06-17
Severity and scoring
- CVSS
- 5.9 MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CWE
- CWE-400
Affected products
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| fluentd | fluentd |
Description
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files to help unify logging infrastructure. The parser_apache2 plugin in Fluentd v0.14.14 to v1.14.1 suffers from a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability. A broken apache log with a certain pattern of string can spend too much time in a regular expression, resulting in the potential for a DoS attack. This issue is patched in version 1.14.2 There are two workarounds available. Either don't use parser_apache2 for parsing logs (which cannot guarantee generated by Apache), or put patched version of parser_apache2.rb into /etc/fluent/plugin directory (or any other directories specified by the environment variable `FLUENT_PLUGIN` or `--plugin` option of fluentd).
Source: NVD
References
- [NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-41186
- [Other]https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1142
- [Other]https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/security/advisories/GHSA-hwhf-64mh-r662
- [Other]https://github.com/github/securitylab-vulnerabilities/blob/52dc4a2a828c6dc24231967c2937ad92038184a9/vendor_reports/GHSL-2021-102-fluent-fluentd.md
- [Other]https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1142
- [Other]https://github.com/fluent/fluentd/security/advisories/GHSA-hwhf-64mh-r662
- [Other]https://github.com/github/securitylab-vulnerabilities/blob/52dc4a2a828c6dc24231967c2937ad92038184a9/vendor_reports/GHSL-2021-102-fluent-fluentd.md
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