vulnerability / NVI-00012129 / Revision 2
Quasar Framework: Super-linear regex backtracking on User-Agent lets one request stall a Quasar SSR server
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01 / Meaning
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0.370%
FIRST EPSS model v2026.06.15; exploitation probability over 30 days, percentile 0.30985. Missing scores are unknown.
As of · FIRST EPSS
02 / Applicability
The affected context
Affected versions, configuration prerequisites and known exclusions are public. Confirm each one against the deployed service.
quasar
source listed<= 2.23.2
### Summary One unauthenticated request with a crafted `User-Agent` stalls a Quasar SSR server for seconds. Quasar auto-installs its `Platform` plugin on every server-side render, and `Platform.parseSSR()` feeds the raw, unbounded `User-Agent` request header into a chain of backtracking regular expressions in `getMatch()`. One of those patterns contains a greedy capture followed by two unbounded `.*` scans, so a crafted header costs time proportional to the cube of its length. An 8 KB `User-Agent` blocks the Node.js event loop for about 4.4 seconds, and a 16 KB one for about 35 seconds. During that time the server answers nobody, so a handful of tiny requests take an SSR site completely offline. ### Details `Platform` is in the `autoInstalledPlugins` array in `ui/src/install-quasar.js`, so it is installed unconditionally by `app.use(Quasar, ...)`. The generated SSR entry (`app-vite/templates/entry/app.js`, called from `app-vite/templates/entry/server-entry.js`) runs that for every HTTP request, and it runs before routing, so requests to paths that do not exist are affected too. On the server the plugin takes the header verbatim (`ui/src/plugins/platform/Platform.js`): ```js Pl
03 / Response
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04 / Limits
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05 / Provenance
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- GHSA-68jq-fhch-4xq4 ↗
GitHub Advisory Database · vendor advisory
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- CVE-2026-106104 ↗
FIRST EPSS · official catalog
Observed . FIRST EPSS; probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, not local compromise. Dataset date/model retained; FIRST services terms apply.
Public revision history
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- Revision 2 ·
Dated EPSS estimate updated; this is not a new disclosure or proof of exploitation.
- Revision 1 ·
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