** UNSUPPORTED WHEN ASSIGNED ** Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability in Apache Traffic Control. This issue affects Apache Traffic Control: all versions. People with access to the management interface of the Traffic Router component could specify malicious patterns and cause unavailability. As this project is retired, we do not plan to release a version that fixes this issue. Users are recommended to find an alternative or restrict access to the instance to trusted users. NOTE: This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/mx2jxgnlop2f4vbqnvmrldh4pqmobxvp Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 7.5 · apacheNVD modified 2026-10-09 10:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:apache:traffic_control:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
References 2
- https://lists.apache.org/thread/mx2jxgnlop2f4vbqnvmrldh4pqmobxvp Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/16/3