CVE-2022-42964 (GCVE-0-2022-42964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-01 19:19
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Title
Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service
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
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
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pymatgen pymatgen Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
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