Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting firefox package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (72nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-FIREFOX-5773882
  • published13 Jul 2023
  • disclosed21 Jun 2023

Introduced: 21 Jun 2023

CVE-2022-25883  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 firefox.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream firefox package and not the firefox package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Versions of the package semver before 7.5.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the function new Range, when untrusted user data is provided as a range.

CVSS Scores

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