CVE-2022-3517

Aliases:GHSA-f8q6-p94x-37v3DEBIAN-CVE-2022-3517CGA-3x49-wwwg-3gcgCGA-46m9-2599-9928CGA-9cc4-3vjm-fqhwCGA-ff3v-cxhq-mp79CGA-g943-whj4-qvj7CGA-gcrh-qr44-2v2rCGA-j9g8-gv7w-8rg9CGA-p8pr-whhf-x6r6
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
1.82% LOW
2% probability +1.35%
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: 1.82%• Percentile: 78%

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

  • chainguard•py3.10-captum

    < 0.9.0-r1

  • chainguard•py3.11-captum

    < 0.9.0-r1

  • chainguard•py3.12-captum

    < 0.9.0-r1

  • chainguard•py3.13-captum

    < 0.9.0-r1

  • debian•node-minimatch

    < 3.0.4+~3.0.3-1+deb11u1 | < 3.0.5+~3.0.5-1 | < 3.0.5+~3.0.5-1 | < 3.0.5+~3.0.5-1

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0

  • fedoraproject•fedora

    36 | 37

  • minimatch_project•minimatch

    < 3.0.5

  • Npm•minimatch

    < 3.0.5

References (12)