CVE-2021-21328

MEDIUM

Vapor < 4.40.1 - Denial of Service

Title source: rule
STIX 2.1

Description

Vapor is a web framework for Swift. In Vapor before version 4.40.1, there is a DoS attack against anyone who Bootstraps a metrics backend for their Vapor app. The following is the attack vector: 1. send unlimited requests against a vapor instance with different paths. this will create unlimited counters and timers, which will eventually drain the system. 2. downstream services might suffer from this attack as well by being spammed with error paths. This has been patched in 4.40.1. The `DefaultResponder` will rewrite any undefined route paths for to `vapor_route_undefined` to avoid unlimited counters.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Release Notes, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/vapor/vapor/releases/tag/4.40.1
Product x_refsource_misc
https://vapor.codes/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.3
EPSS 0.0044
EPSS Percentile 63.3%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (2)
SwiftURL/github.com/vapor/vapor 0 - 4.40.1SwiftURL
vapor_project/vapor < 4.40.1
Published Feb 26, 2021
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026