materialsproject/pymatgen · Security

pymatgen is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

GHSA ID
GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32
CVE ID
CVE-2022-42964
Severity
medium
Published
Updated
CVSS
5.9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
5.9 · CVSS: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.

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