Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting renovate package, versions <39.174.0-r0


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.21% (44th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-WOLFILATEST-RENOVATE-15413256
  • published5 Mar 2026
  • disclosed14 Feb 2025

Introduced: 14 Feb 2025

CVE-2025-25289  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Wolfi renovate to version 39.174.0-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

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

@octokit/request-error is an error class for Octokit request errors. Starting in version 1.0.0 and prior to version 6.1.7, a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the processing of HTTP request headers. By sending an authorization header containing an excessively long sequence of spaces followed by a newline and "@", an attacker can exploit inefficient regular expression processing, leading to excessive resource consumption. This can significantly degrade server performance or cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, impacting availability. Version 6.1.7 contains a fix for the issue.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1