VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2022-42964

CVSS score5.9 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.88%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2022-11-09
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Description

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

Weakness classification

  • CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Primary references