CVE-2022-42964 (GCVE-0-2022-42964)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-11-09 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-01 19:19
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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
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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pymatgen pymatgen Affected: 0 , < * (custom)
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