CVE-2022-42964

Advisory

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

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5jqp-885w-xj32
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-42964
• https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen
• https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-42964