Inefficient regular expression complexity in ip-address - #VU154087
Published: October 12, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU154087
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-1333
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when parsing IPv6 zone identifiers before length checks. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Affected software
ip-address
Remediation
Install updates from vendor's website.
ip-address - update to 10.7.4