CVE-2022-42964

Publication date 9 November 2022

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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

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Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pymatgen	25.04 plucky	Not affected
	24.10 oracular	Not affected
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	23.04 lunar	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.10 kinetic	Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
	22.04 LTS jammy	Vulnerable
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support

Notes

sbeattie

as of 2024-07-17, proposed fix only incorporated in debian, upstream bug report is still open.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	5.9 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	High
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H