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ghsa-5jqp-885w-xj32

Vulnerability from github

Published

2022-11-10 12:01

Modified

2023-08-31 00:33

Severity ?

5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Summary

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

Details

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.

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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32",
  "modified": "2023-08-31T00:33:18Z",
  "published": "2022-11-10T12:01:17Z",
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    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen/issues/2755"
    },
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      "type": "PACKAGE",
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    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184"
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}

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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URL

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

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	pymatgen	pymatgen	Version: 0 < *

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