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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2022-42964

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the pymatgen PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the GaussianInput.from_string method

HIGH 7.5EPSS 0.86%

Does this matter?

High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.86%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.

Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the pymatgen PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the GaussianInput.from_string method

CVSS 3.1
7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.86% probability · 57th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-1333
Affected
materialsvirtuallab/pymatgen
Source
reefs@jfrog.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.