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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2025-25288 json

@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest has a Regular Expression in iterator that Leads to ReDoS Vulnerability Due to Catastrophic Backtracking

published 2025-02-14 20 mo ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also GHSA-h5c3-5r3r-rr8q , EUVD-2025-4102

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest is the Octokit plugin to paginate REST API endpoint responses. For versions starting in 1.0.0 and prior to 11.4.1 of the npm package `@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest`, when calling `octokit.paginate.iterator()`, a specially crafted `octokit` instance—particularly with a malicious `link` parameter in the `headers` section of the `request`—can trigger a ReDoS attack. Version 11.4.1 contains a fix for the issue.

Patch / fix

  • npm @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest 9.2.2, 11.4.1

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-2025-25288 updated cvss 5.3

octokit/plugin-paginate-rest: @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest has a Regular Expression in iterator that Leads to ReDoS Vulnerability Due to Catastrophic Backtracking

  • Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes multicluster-engine/multicluster-engine-console-mce-rhel9
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-backstage-plugins-eventmesh-rhel8 openshift-serverless-1/kn-backstage-plugins-eventmesh-rhel8
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/console-rhel8 Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 io.apicurio-apicurio-registry io.apicurio-apicurio-registry Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces devspaces/code-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Developer Hub 1 rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8 org.keycloak-keycloak-parent org.keycloak-keycloak-parent Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack org.keycloak-keycloak-parent org.keycloak-keycloak-parent
    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
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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
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 @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest
>=9.3.0-beta.1, <11.4.1
>=1.0.0, <9.2.2
11.4.1
9.2.2

Affected products

  • octokit plugin-paginate-rest.js

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Sources

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