CVE-2022-25858
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
HIGH
7.5
CVSS Score
Published: July 15, 2022 at 08:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:34 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorTerser
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Severity
HIGH7.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 3%
Description
The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (5)
x_refsource_MISCBroken Link
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/terser/terser/blob/master/lib/compress/evaluate.js%23L135x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/a4da7349fdc92c05094f41d33d06d8cd4e90e76bx_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/terser/terser/commit/d8cc5691be980d663c29cc4d5ce67e852d597012x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-2949722x_refsource_MISCExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-TERSER-2806366CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- NONE
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- NONE
- Integrity
- NONE
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-1333
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