CVE-2022-3517

Aliases:GHSA-f8q6-p94x-37v3
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 14
Modified
Published: 17 Oct 2022, 00:00
Last modified:13 May 2025, 13:41

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
30/100
CVSS Score
7.5 HIGH
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.48% LOW
0% probability +0.01%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

17 Oct 2022, 00:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
13 May 2025, 13:41
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.48%• Percentile: 65%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-400•Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

    The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.

  • CWE-1333•Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

    The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    36 | 37

  • minimatch_project•minimatch

    < 3.0.5

  • Npm•minimatch

    < 3.0.5

References (10)