CVE-2022-42964

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

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
pymatgenpymatgen0 < *affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-1333: CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: poc
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: partial

References