CVE-2026-87722 PUBLISHED

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in Search Query Predicates and REST Filter Endpoints in Gerrit Code Review

Assigner: Google
Reserved: 09.09.2026 Published: 24.09.2026 Updated: 24.09.2026

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400 / CWE-1333) in regex search query predicates (such as RegexProjectPredicate, RegexRefPredicate, RegexPathPredicate, and sibling predicates) and REST regex filter endpoints (RegexListSearcher /projects/?r= and RefFilter /projects/{project}/branches/?r=) in Gerrit Code Review versions 2.1.6 through 3.12.9, 3.13.0 through 3.13.8, and 3.14.0 through 3.14.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker (or an authenticated user if anonymous read access is disabled) to cause a denial of service (CPU starvation and JVM heap exhaustion / OutOfMemoryError) via crafted search queries or REST API requests containing regular expressions with large counted repetitions or exponential DFA determinization patterns. Because the user-supplied regular expression is compiled into an unbounded dk.brics.automaton instance (new RegExp(re).toAutomaton()) on the request thread prior to index evaluation or access control visibility filtering, trivial queries can exhaust JVM heap or pin request threads regardless of heap size. This issue is fixed in Gerrit Code Review versions 3.12.10, 3.13.9, and 3.14.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor Gerrit
Product Gerrit
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.1.6 to 3.12.10 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.13.0 to 3.13.9 (excl.)
  • affected from 3.14.0 to 3.14.3 (excl.)

Credits

  • Amin Alemi finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption CWE
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
  • CAPEC-130 Excessive Allocation