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
References
- https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.