Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-25883

MediumPublic PoC

Published: 21 June 2023

Published
21 June 2023
Modified
23 September 2025
KEV Added
Patch
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 0.0058 69.4th percentile
Risk Priority 11 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-25883 is a medium-severity Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity (CWE-1333) vulnerability in Npmjs Semver. Its CVSS base score is 5.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 30.6% 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

Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

npmjs
semver
≤ 5.7.2 · 6.0.0 — 6.3.1 · 7.0.0 — 7.5.3

Mitigating Controls

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

References