semver vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service · CVE-2022-25883 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

semver vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Jun 21, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jul 10, 2023

Package

semver (npm)

Affected versions

>= 7.0.0, < 7.5.2

>= 6.0.0, < 6.3.1

< 5.7.2

Patched versions

7.5.2

6.3.1

5.7.2

Description

Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 on the 7.x branch, before 6.3.1 on the 6.x branch, and all other versions before 5.7.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.

References

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Jun 21, 2023

Reviewed Jun 22, 2023

Last updated Jul 10, 2023

Severity

Moderate

5.3

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Low

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L