Inefficient regular expression complexity in endpoint.js - CVE-2025-25285

Vulnerability details

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.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2025-25285

External References

• https://github.com/octokit/endpoint.js/blob/main/src/parse.ts
• https://github.com/octokit/endpoint.js/commit/6c9c5be033c450d436efb37de41b6470c22f7db8
• https://github.com/octokit/endpoint.js/security/advisories/GHSA-x4c5-c7rf-jjgv

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• Inefficient regular expression complexity in octokit endpoint
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