modules:
  - module: github.com/revel/revel
    versions:
      - fixed: 1.0.0
    vulnerable_at: 0.21.0
    packages:
      - package: github.com/revel/revel
description: |
    An attacker can cause an application that accepts slice parameters
    (https://revel.github.io/manual/parameters.html#slices) to allocate large
    amounts of memory and crash through manipulating the request query sent to the application.
published: 2021-04-14T20:04:52Z
ghsas:
  - GHSA-hggr-p7v6-73p5
credit: '@SYM01'
references:
  - fix: https://github.com/revel/revel/pull/1427
  - fix: https://github.com/revel/revel/commit/d160ecb72207824005b19778594cbdc272e8a605
  - web: https://github.com/revel/revel/issues/1424
cve_metadata:
    id: CVE-2020-36568
    cwe: 'CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption'
    description: |
        Unsanitized input in the query parser in github.com/revel/revel before v1.0.0
        allows remote attackers to cause resource exhaustion via memory allocation.