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high 7.5

CVE-2022-37599 json

loader-utils is vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

published 2022-10-11 4 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-hhq3-ff78-jv3g , EUVD-2022-7107

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) flaw was found in Function interpolateName in interpolateName.js in webpack loader-utils 2.0.0 via the resourcePath variable in interpolateName.js.

Patch / fix

  • npm loader-utils 1.4.2, 2.0.4, 3.2.1
  • webpack.js loader-utils 1.4.2, 2.0.4, 3.2.1
  • node-loader-utils Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.0.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2022-37599

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-2022-37599 updated cvss 7.5

loader-utils: regular expression denial of service in interpolateName.js

  • Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-ui-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-prometheus, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 aap-azure-ui
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 loader-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Certification for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 redhat-certification
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat Discovery 1 discovery-server-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 pcs, grafana, pcs-snmp, 389-ds-base, grafana-loki, grafana-mssql, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 pcs, grafana, pcs-snmp, grafana-selinux Red Hat Fuse 7 loader-utils Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 loader-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6 loader-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix available “Fix deferred”
show 11 more
  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack loader-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-console
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/odf-console-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-dashboard-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/traefik-rhel8, devspaces-theia-rhel8-container
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/jaeger-agent-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/argo-rollouts-rhel8, openshift-gitops-1/console-plugin-rhel8
    affected: workaround, no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 container-native-virtualization/kubevirt-console-plugin
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Quay 3 quay/quay-rhel8 Red Hat Single Sign-On 7 loader-utils
    affected: workaround, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat RHPAM 7.13.4 async
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:4983
  • Red Hat Cryostat 2 loader-utils Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/kibana6-rhel8, openshift-logging/logging-view-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 6 mta/mta-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Network Observability Operator network-observability/network-observability-console-plugin-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines/pipelines-hub-ui-rhel8
    +8 more products
    Red Hat A-MQ Online loader-utils Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel8, acm-cluster-templates-console-plugin-container Red Hat build of OptaPlanner 8 loader-utils Red Hat Data Grid 8 loader-utils Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mozjs60, cockpit-podman Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, polkit, polkit-libs Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 loader-utils Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-monitoring-plugin-rhel9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

1 more not affected in the full advisory

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

Exploit prediction

2.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
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 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm loader-utils
>=1.0.0, <1.4.2
>=2.0.0, <2.0.4
>=3.0.0, <3.2.1
1.4.2
2.0.4
3.2.1

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

Sources

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