CVE-2022-42964 Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service

2022-11-0900:00:00

CWE-1333

JFROG

www.cve.org

cve-2022-42964

denial of service

gaussianinput

pypi package

CVSS3

5.9

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

36.8%

JSON

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

CNA Affected

[
  {
    "vendor": "pymatgen",
    "product": "pymatgen",
    "versions": [
      {
        "version": "0",
        "status": "affected",
        "lessThan": "*",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ]
  }
]