Name: CVE-2022-42964: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2022-42964, CWE-1333, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.00213

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 Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade pymatgenNo solution exists	May 15, 2025	Nov 9, 2022
Freebsd	—	Upgrade py38-pymatgenUpgrade py310-pymatgenUpgrade py311-pymatgenUpgrade py37-pymatgenUpgrade py39-pymatgen	Apr 14, 2023	Apr 9, 2023
Ubuntu	—	No solution exists	Jun 26, 2025	Nov 9, 2022

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CVSS Details

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