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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2022-25901 json

cookiejar Regular Expression Denial of Service via Cookie.parse function

published 2023-01-18 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-h452-7996-h45h , EUVD-2023-0478

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.6%
EPSS 1.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 75%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Versions of the package cookiejar before 2.1.4 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the Cookie.parse function, which uses an insecure regular expression.

Patch / fix

  • npm cookiejar 2.1.4
  • n/a cookiejar 2.1.4
  • node-cookiejar Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.1.4+~2.1.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-25901

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2022-25901 updated cvss 7.5

cookiejar: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/search-api-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 firefox, mozjs60, thunderbird Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, polkit, firefox, firefox-x11, polkit-libs, thunderbird
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
Proof of concept is public
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
19 mo ago

Exploit prediction

1.59% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 75% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • security.snyk.io https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-COOKIEJAR-3149984 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • security.snyk.io https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3176681 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L/E:P
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm cookiejar
<2.1.4
2.1.4
maven org.webjars.npm:cookiejar
<=2.1.3
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • n/a cookiejar
  • n/a org.webjars.npm:cookiejar

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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