CVE-2022-42964CWE-1333

Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service

Medium · published November 9, 2022

CVSS v3.1
5.9
EPSS
1%
Percentile
58.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
5.9 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00880 · 58.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Published
2022-11-09T00:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 09 NOV 00:00Z
    Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service
    cvelistv5