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    CVE-2022-42964

    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

    Published:Nov 9, 2022
    Last Modified:May 1, 2025
    EPS:Nov 9, 2022
    EPSS Score:0.00361
    CVSS Score:5.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Materialsvirtuallab
    Product
    Pymatgen

    Exploits

    https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-492 Regular Expression Exponential Blowup

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
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    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High