What is GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32?

GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. pymatgen is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32 cover?

GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2022-42964. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32?

GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32 has a CVSS v3 base score of 5.9, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

Which products are affected by GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32?

GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32 affects 1 product, including: pip/pymatgen:\u003c= 2022.9.21.

GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32MediumCVSS 5.9

pymatgen is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

November 10, 2022

Last Modified

August 31, 2023

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2022-42964 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

pip/pymatgen:<= 2022.9.21

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42964
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/
https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen/issues/2755
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32