#VU105984 Inefficient regular expression complexity in babel - CVE-2025-27789
Published: March 24, 2025
Vulnerability identifier: #VU105984
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-27789
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
babel
babel
Software vendor:
Babel
Babel
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.