SB2025070439 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit endpoint
Published: July 4, 2025 Updated: April 24, 2026
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25285)
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 by crafting specific `options` parameters, the `endpoint.parse(options)` call can be triggered, leading to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. This causes the program to hang and results in high CPU utilization. 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.