Medium
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
Type: advisorySources: OSV
The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2022-25858
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 23:31 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 15 Jul 2022, 20:00 UTC
The package terser before 4.8.1, from 5.0.0 and before 5.14.2 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) due to insecure usage of regular expressions.
osv:CVE-2022-25858
Complete source record
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