Inefficient regular expression complexity in plugin-paginate-rest.js - CVE-2025-25288

Vulnerability details

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.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2025-25288

External 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

Related Security Bulletins

• Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit plugin-paginate-rest.js
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Manager Open Editions