CVE-2022-42964

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

CVSS v3 5.9 MEDIUM

5.9^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.2 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity HIGH

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/	Exploit Third Party Advisory
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/	Exploit Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

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

History

04 Feb 2025, 14:11

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE	cpe:2.3:a:pymatgen:pymatgen:-:::::::*	cpe:2.3:a:materialsvirtuallab:pymatgen:-:::::::*
First Time		Materialsvirtuallab Materialsvirtuallab pymatgen

21 Nov 2024, 07:25

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~7.5~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 5.9
References	~~() https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory~~	() https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/ - Exploit, Third Party Advisory

Information

Published : 2022-11-09 20:15

Updated : 2025-02-04 14:11

NVD link : CVE-2022-42964

Mitre link : CVE-2022-42964

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2022-42964

JSON object : View

Products Affected

materialsvirtuallab

pymatgen

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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5.9 /10