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Total vulnerabilities in the database

CVE-2019-16215

The Markdown parser in Zulip server before 2.0.5 used a regular expression vulnerable to exponential backtracking. A user who is logged into the server could send a crafted message causing the server to spend an effectively arbitrary amount of CPU time and stall the processing of future messages.

  • Published: Sep 18, 2019
  • Updated: Nov 9, 2025
  • CVE: CVE-2019-16215
  • Severity: Medium
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 6.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Low
  • Score: 4
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
zulip / zulip_server - 2.0.5