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CVE-2021-38244

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2021-12-16 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability exits in cbioportal 3.6.21 and older via a POST request to /ProteinArraySignificanceTest.json.

Affected products

• Cbioportal Project Cbioportal: through 3.6.21

References

• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/issues/8680
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/pull/8751
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/issues/8680
• https://github.com/cBioPortal/cbioportal/pull/8751

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