Incorrect regular expression in scss-tokenizer - CVE-2022-25758

 

Incorrect regular expression in scss-tokenizer - CVE-2022-25758

Published: May 16, 2023


Vulnerability identifier: #VU76180
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-25758
CWE-ID: CWE-185
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 processing regular expressions in loadAnnotation() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


Affected software

scss-tokenizer
IBM Edge Application Manager
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD)
IBM Cloud Pak System
QRadar User Behavior Analytics

How to mitigate CVE-2022-25758

Install update from vendor's website.

scss-tokenizer - update to 0.4.3
Data Virtualization (DV) on Cloud Pak for Data (CPD) - update to 1.8.0
IBM Cloud Pak System - update to 2.3.4.0
QRadar User Behavior Analytics - update to 4.1.11

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