Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25858

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 15 July 2022

Published
15 July 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0372 88.2th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25858 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Terser Terser. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 11.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.

CWE(s)
CWE-1333

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

terser
terser
≤ 4.8.1 · 5.0.0 — 5.14.2

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References