CVE catalog

CVE-2022-42964

pymatgen: CVE-2022-42964

[CVE catalog]

Severity
Medium
Published
Source
[NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS
0.88% · Oct 25, 2026

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

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

DistributionPackageReleaseVersionStatus
Debianpymatgensid2026.5.4+dfsg1-1fixed
Debianpymatgentrixie2025.2.18+dfsg1-5fixed
Debianpymatgenbookworm2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2fixed
Debianpymatgenbookworm-security2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1vulnerable
Ubuntupymatgen22.042022.0.14+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntupymatgen22.042022.0.16+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntupymatgen22.042022.0.17+dfsg1-1vulnerable
Ubuntupymatgen22.042022.0.17+dfsg1-1build1vulnerable

Fixed-version evidence

DistributionPackageTypeReleaseFixed versionUrgencyOriginBugs
Debianpymatgensourcesid2023.06.23+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[1024017]
Debianpymatgensourcetrixie2023.06.23+dfsg1-1not yet assignedNot reported[1024017]
Debianpymatgensourcebookworm2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2not yet assignedNot reported[1024017]

[Debian bug #1024017]

OpenFactory catalog packages

Matching against OpenFactory catalog package versions is in progress.

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

  • Source package: [pymatgen]

    Details (4)
    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2 · amd64 · bookworm

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2 · arm64 · bookworm

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1 · amd64 · bookworm-security

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1 · arm64 · bookworm-security

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

  • Source package: [pymatgen]

    Details (4)
    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2 · all · bookworm

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2 · all · bookworm

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1 · all · bookworm-security

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

    • 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u1 · all · bookworm-security

      Affected · Fixed: 2022.11.7+dfsg1-11+deb12u2

      dsa · pymatgen · debian · bookworm

Observed:

References