UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42964

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-42964
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42964.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42964
Upstream
Published
2022-11-09T20:15:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:50:29Z
Severity
  • 5.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

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

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:22.04:LTS / pymatgen

Package

Name
pymatgen
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pymatgen@2022.0.17+dfsg1-1build1?arch=source&distro=jammy

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2022.*

2022.0.14+dfsg1-1
2022.0.16+dfsg1-1
2022.0.17+dfsg1-1
2022.0.17+dfsg1-1build1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "python3-pymatgen",
            "binary_version": "2022.0.17+dfsg1-1build1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-42964.json"