SB2025070412 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit plugin-paginate-rest.js
Published: July 4, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2025070412
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25288)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a specially crafted `octokit` instance—particularly with a malicious `link` parameter in the `headers` section of the `request`—can trigger a ReDoS attack when calling `octokit.paginate.iterator()`. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.