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medium 5.9

CVE-2022-2596 json

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in node-fetch/node-fetch

published 4y ago modified last mo. also GHSA-vp56-6g26-6827 , EUVD-2022-6634

cvss
5.9
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.3%
EPSS 1.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 71%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitHub repository node-fetch/node-fetch prior to 3.2.10.

Patch / fix

  • npm node-fetch 3.2.10
  • node-fetch node-fetch/node-fetch 3.2.10

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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-2022-2596 updated cvss 5.9

node-fetch: Denial of Service in GitHub repository node-fetch

  • Red Hat .NET 6.0 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-dotnet60-dotnet, rh-dotnet60-dotnet-host, rh-dotnet60-dotnet-sdk-6.0, rh-dotnet60-dotnet-hostfxr-6.0, rh-dotnet60-dotnet-runtime-6.0, rh-dotnet60-dotnet-templates-6.0, +6 more Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Containers rhmtc/openshift-migration-ui-rhel8 Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-ui-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Tools and Services odo Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2 openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-prometheus, servicemesh-grafana-prometheus
    +26 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.1 servicemesh-grafana, servicemesh-prometheus, openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel8 Red Hat A-MQ Online node-fetch Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 rhacm2/grc-ui-rhel8, rhacm2/console-rhel8, rhacm2/search-ui-rhel8, rhacm2/grc-ui-api-rhel8, rhacm2/search-api-rhel8, rhacm2/console-api-rhel8, +2 more Red Hat build of Apicurio Registry 2 node-fetch Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 grafana Red Hat Data Grid 8 node-fetch Red Hat Decision Manager 7 node-fetch Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 firefox Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 firefox, rhsm-gtk, python-syspurpose, subscription-manager, subscription-manager-gui, subscription-manager-rhsm, +6 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 rls, rust, cargo, clippy, dotnet, cockpit, +65 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 gjs, rust, cargo, clippy, polkit, firefox, +29 more Red Hat Integration Camel K 1 node-fetch Red Hat Integration Service Registry node-fetch Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7 node-fetch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7 node-fetch Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform Expansion Pack node-fetch Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11 openshift3/ose-console Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8 Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel8, noobaa-core-container Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 2 rhosdt/jaeger-query-rhel8, rhosdt/jaeger-all-in-one-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 Red Hat Process Automation 7 node-fetch Red Hat Satellite 6 subscription-manager, python3-subscription-manager-rhsm Red Hat Storage 3 grafana Red Hat Virtualization 4 cockpit-ovirt-uiplugin, cockpit-ovirt-dashboard, ovirt-engine-api-explorer, ovirt-engine-ui-extensions
    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
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
last mo.

Exploit prediction

1.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • huntr.dev https://huntr.dev/bounties/a7e6a136-0a4b-46c4-ad20-802f1dd60bf7 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
npm node-fetch
>=3.0.0, <3.2.10
3.2.10

Affected products

  • node-fetch node-fetch/node-fetch

Classification

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

References

Sources

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