unitech/pm2 · Security
pm2 Regular Expression Denial of Service vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-x5gf-qvw8-r2rm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-5891
- Severity
- low
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 4.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v3
- 4.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS v4
- 2.1 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P
Description
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Unitech pm2 prior to 7.0.0. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /lib/tools/Config.js. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used.
CWEs
- CWE-400 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
- CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5891 ↗
- https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/pull/5971 ↗
- https://gist.github.com/mmmsssttt404/407e2ffe3e0eaa393ad923a86316a385 ↗
- https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311662 ↗
- https://vuldb.com/?id.311662 ↗
- https://vuldb.com/?submit.585750 ↗
- https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/issues/6075 ↗
- https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/commit/8b9354800a1d157cb9503a3ec414ef1e4700dc1c ↗
- https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/blob/ba62cae9b9b7116ee758b70f538919a52515fa26/CHANGELOG.md?plain=1#L36 ↗
- https://github.com/Unitech/pm2/releases/tag/v7.0.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x5gf-qvw8-r2rm ↗