CVE-2022-42964

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Published 2022-11-10 · Modified 2024-02-21

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CVSS v3

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

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

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	affected
debian	sid	fixed	`2023.06.23+dfsg1-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2023.06.23+dfsg1-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	pymatgen	`<=2022.9.21`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.