CVE-2022-25881

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Jan 31, 2023
Updated: Mar 27, 2025
Reserved: Feb 24, 2022

Description

This affects versions of the package http-cache-semantics before 4.1.1. The issue can be exploited via malicious request header values sent to a server, when that server reads the cache policy from the request using this library.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	snyk

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

Affected Products

Product	Versions
http-cache-semanticsn/a	before 4.1.1Affected
org.webjars.npm:http-cache-semanticsn/a	before 4.1.1Affected

References

https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-HTTPCACHESEMANTICS-3248783
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3253332
https://github.com/kornelski/http-cache-semantics/blob/master/index.js%23L83
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230622-0008/

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