SB2025070412 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit plugin-paginate-rest.js

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.

1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25288)

CWE-ID: CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green

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.

References

• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/blob/main/src/iterator.ts
• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/commit/bb6c4f945d8023902cf387391d2b2209261044ab
• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/security/advisories/GHSA-h5c3-5r3r-rr8q