Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting knack package, versions *
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- published21 Aug 2025
- disclosed20 Aug 2025
Introduced: 20 Aug 2025
NewCVE-2025-54364 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:14 knack.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream knack package and not the knack package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:14 relevant fixed versions and status.
Microsoft Knack 0.12.0 allows Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the knack.introspection module. option_descriptions employs an inefficient regular expression pattern: "\s(:param)\s+(.+?)\s:(.*)" that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking when processing crafted docstrings containing a large volume of whitespace without a terminating colon. An attacker who can control or inject docstring content into affected applications can trigger excessive CPU consumption. This software is used by Azure CLI.