fluentd is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) attacks. An attacker is able to inject a certain pattern of string via a broken apache log that would cause a ReDoS attack when the parsed malicious string spends too much time in the regular expression.
github.com/fluent/fluentd/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#v1142
github.com/fluent/fluentd/commit/5482a3d049dab351de0be68f4b4bc562319d8511
github.com/fluent/fluentd/security/advisories/GHSA-hwhf-64mh-r662
github.com/github/securitylab-vulnerabilities/blob/52dc4a2a828c6dc24231967c2937ad92038184a9/vendor_reports/GHSL-2021-102-fluent-fluentd.md