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CVE-2022-37259

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Sep 20, 2022 | Modified: May 28, 2025
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-37259
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the string variable in babel.js.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
StealStealjs2.2.4 (including)2.2.4 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References

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