Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting nginx-proxy-manager-2-rootfs package, versions <2.12.3-r2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.79% (52nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-MINIMOSLATEST-NGINXPROXYMANAGER2ROOTFS-13320441
  • published6 Oct 2025
  • disclosed5 Dec 2024

Introduced: 5 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-52798  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Minimos:latest nginx-proxy-manager-2-rootfs to version 2.12.3-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx-proxy-manager-2-rootfs package and not the nginx-proxy-manager-2-rootfs package as distributed by Minimos. See How to fix? for Minimos:latest relevant fixed versions and status.

path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.

CVSS Base Scores

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