Inefficient regular expression complexity in endpoint.js - CVE-2025-25285
Published: July 4, 2025 / Updated: April 24, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU112200
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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
CVE-ID: CVE-2025-25285
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: octokit
Affected software:
endpoint.js
endpoint.js
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2025-25285
Cybersecurity Help is currently unaware of any official solution to address this vulnerability..