CVE-2025-54365
In version 3.0.1, the regular expression patched to mitigate the ReDoS vulnerability by limiting the length of string fails to catch inputs that exceed this limit.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.73%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
fastapi-guard is a security library for FastAPI that provides middleware to control IPs, log requests, detect penetration attempts and more. In version 3.0.1, the regular expression patched to mitigate the ReDoS vulnerability by limiting the length of string fails to catch inputs that exceed this limit. This type of patch fails to detect cases in which the string representing the attributes of a <script> tag exceeds 100 characters. As a result, most of the regex patterns present in version 3.0.1 can be bypassed. This is fixed in version 3.0.2.
- CVSS 4.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
- EPSS
- 0.73% probability · 52th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-20, CWE-185, CWE-1333
- Affected
- fastapi-guard/fastapi guard
- Source
- security-advisories@github.com
References
- https://github.com/rennf93/fastapi-guard/commit/0829292c322d33dc14ab00c5451c5c138148035aPatch
- https://github.com/rennf93/fastapi-guard/commit/d9d50e8130b7b434cdc1b001b8cfd03a06729f7fPatch
- https://github.com/rennf93/fastapi-guard/security/advisories/GHSA-rrf6-pxg8-684gExploit, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/rennf93/fastapi-guard/security/advisories/GHSA-rrf6-pxg8-684gExploit, Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.