CVE-2022-37259 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the string variable in babel.js.

Published: 2022-09-20

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:stealjs:steal:2.2.4:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-6935	A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the string variable in babel.js.
Github GHSA	GHSA-rgqx-226f-2xp4	steal Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability via string variable

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00367.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/ext/babel.js#L54124
https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/ext/babel.js#L54129
https://github.com/stealjs/steal/issues/1528

History

Wed, 28 May 2025 19:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Stealjs Steal

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2022-09-20T17:31:22.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-28T18:45:49.332Z

Reserved: 2022-08-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-37259

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T10:29:20.618Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-20T18:15:10.227

Modified: 2025-05-28T19:15:30.310

Link: CVE-2022-37259

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-1333

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