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Status published
Medium
CVE-2022-42964
Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service
Vulnerability Description
An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the pymatgen PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the GaussianInput.from_string method
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
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Affected Vendor
pymatgen
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pymatgen
Vulnerable Versions:
0
Timeline
Official Publish:
November 9th, 2022
Last Modified:
May 1st, 2025
Added to House:
July 21st, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H