| Name | CVE-2022-42964 |
| Description | An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the pymatgen PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the GaussianInput.from_string method |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1024017 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pymatgen (PTS) | bookworm, bookworm (security) | 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2025.2.18+dfsg1-4 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pymatgen | source | (unstable) | 2023.06.23+dfsg1-1 | | | 1024017 |
Notes
[bookworm] - pymatgen <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/pymatgen-redos-xray-257184/
https://github.com/materialsproject/pymatgen/issues/2755