CVE-2026-87721
Published:September 24, 2026
Updated:October 09, 2026
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400 / CWE-407) in the ANTLR 3 search query parser (QueryParser / Query.g) in Gerrit Code Review versions 2.0.19 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 persistent denial of service (CPU exhaustion and HTTP worker thread pool starvation requiring a server restart) via crafted search queries containing deeply nested parentheses sent to query evaluation endpoints (/changes/?q=, /accounts/?q=, /groups/?query=, /projects/?query=, /Documentation/?q=, /changes/{id}/query?expression=, or SSH gerrit query). Because syntactic predicates in conditionOr and conditionAnd recurse via conditionBase without memoization prior to capability or visibility checks and worker threads do not abort when the client disconnects, a small number of requests (such as 25 requests matching default httpd.maxThreads) can permanently pin all HTTP worker threads. This issue is fixed in Gerrit Code Review versions 3.12.10, 3.13.9, and 3.14.3.
Affected Packages
com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=3.13.0 <3.13.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.13.9com.google.gerrit:gerrit-plugin-api (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.0-rc0 <3.12.10Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.12.10com.google.gerrit:gerrit-war (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=3.0.0-rc0 <3.12.10Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.12.10com.google.gerrit:gerrit-war (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=3.13.0 <3.13.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version 3.13.9https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit (SCM_GIT):
Affected version(s) >=v3.0.0-rc0 <v3.12.10Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.12.10https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit (SCM_GIT):
Affected version(s) >=v3.13.0 <v3.13.9Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.13.9https://gerrit.googlesource.com/gerrit (SCM_GIT):
Affected version(s) >=v3.14.0 <v3.14.3Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v3.14.3Related Resources (2)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
8.7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
EPSS
Base Score:
0.32