CVE-2022-42964 (GCVE-0-2022-42964)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-11-09 00:00
Modified
2025-05-01 19:19
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
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
References
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