CVE-2022-42966 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the cleo PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the Table.set_rows method

Published: 2022-11-09

Score: 5.9 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

cleo

cleo

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 1.0.0

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:python-poetry:cleo:-:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-7199	An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the cleo PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the Table.set_rows method
Github GHSA	GHSA-2p9h-ccw7-33gf	cleo is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00299.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/cleo-redos-xray-257186/

History

Thu, 01 May 2025 20:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Python-poetry Cleo

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: JFROG

Published: 2022-11-09T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-05-01T19:18:38.356Z

Reserved: 2022-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42966

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.526Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-11-09T20:15:10.993

Modified: 2024-11-21T07:25:41.930

Link: CVE-2022-42966

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-1333

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