CVE-2022-42964 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

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 0.00361.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Materialsvirtuallab	Pymatgen

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:materialsvirtuallab:pymatgen:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-7243	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
Github GHSA	GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32	pymatgen is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
First Time appeared		Materialsvirtuallab Materialsvirtuallab pymatgen
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:pymatgen:pymatgen:-:::::::*	cpe:2.3:a:materialsvirtuallab:pymatgen:-:::::::*
Vendors & Products	Pymatgen Pymatgen pymatgen	Materialsvirtuallab Materialsvirtuallab pymatgen

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T19:19:37.705Z

Reserved: 2022-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42964

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.541Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-09T20:15:09.793

Modified: 2025-02-04T14:11:18.270

Link: CVE-2022-42964

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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