Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
High

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-28667

StackStorm before 3.4.1, in some situations, has an infinite loop that consumes all available memory and disk space. This can occur if Python 3.x is used, the locale is not utf-8, and there is an attempt to log Unicode data (from an action or rule name).

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2021-28667
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 07:59 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-28667

core-osv · Original source

Published 18 Mar 2021, 03:15 UTC

StackStorm before 3.4.1, in some situations, has an infinite loop that consumes all available memory and disk space. This can occur if Python 3.x is used, the locale is not utf-8, and there is an attempt to log Unicode data (from an action or rule name).

osv:CVE-2021-28667
Complete source record
{
  "id": "c284310504297e4a53e5e77efbe9befc3c5e6b2918ceb0de32d64e6a65e26a0b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-28667",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-28667",
    "summary": "StackStorm before 3.4.1, in some situations, has an infinite loop that consumes all available memory and disk space. This can occur if Python 3.x is used, the locale is not utf-8, and there is an attempt to log Unicode data (from an action or rule name).",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-28667",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-28667",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2021-28667"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/stackstorm/st2",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "7a8b13f58b88dba95b1e9bb21432af22b1b6f48a"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:stackstorm:stackstorm:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "3.4.1"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v3.4.0",
            "v2.9.3"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-28667.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:31:01.178980682Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://stackstorm.com/2021/03/10/stackstorm-v3-4-1-security-fix/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-28667",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 439734,
  "published_at": "2021-03-18T03:15:12.047+00:00"
}