SB2025070439 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit endpoint



SB2025070439 - Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit endpoint

Published: July 4, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025070439
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25285)

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.