CVE-2023-25166

Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) Vulnerability

State: Published
Severity: 5.5 Medium
Published: Feb 8, 2023
Updated: Mar 10, 2025
Reserved: Feb 3, 2023

Description

formula is a math and string formula parser. In versions prior to 3.0.1 crafted user-provided strings to formula's parser might lead to polynomial execution time and a denial of service. Users should upgrade to 3.0.1+. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
formulahapijs	< 3.0.1Affected

References

https://github.com/hapijs/formula/security/advisories/GHSA-c2jc-4fpr-4vhg
https://github.com/hapijs/formula/commit/9fbc20a02d75ae809c37a610a57802cd1b41b3fe

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