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Medium · 5.3 CVE-2025-25285 EUVD-2025-4099GHSA-x4c5-c7rf-jjgv

@octokit/endpoint has a Regular Expression in parse that Leads to ReDoS Vulnerability Due to Catastrophic Backtracking

Published Feb 14, 2025 · Updated Feb 14, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

@octokit/endpoint turns REST API endpoints into generic request options. Starting in version 4.1.0 and prior to version 10.1.3, by crafting specific `options` parameters, the `endpoint.parse(options)` call can be triggered, leading to a regular expression denial-of-service (ReDoS) attack. This causes the program to hang and results in high CPU utilization. The issue occurs in the `parse` function within the `parse.ts` file of the npm package `@octokit/endpoint`. Version 10.1.3 contains a patch for the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
octokit endpoint.js >= 4.1.0, < 10.1.3 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling renovate 39.174.0-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm @octokit/endpoint >= 9.0.5, < 9.0.6 9.0.6 GHSA-x4c5-c7rf-jjgv
npm @octokit/endpoint >= 10.0.0, < 10.1.3 10.1.3 GHSA-x4c5-c7rf-jjgv

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