CVE-2024-45296 HIGH

CVE-2024-45296: path-to-regexp outputs backtracking regular expressions

Vendor Pillarjs
Product path-to-regexp
Weakness CWE-1333
Published September 9, 2024
Last update January 24, 2025

CVSS base score

7.5/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Confidentiality None
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

What the vulnerability does

01Description

path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. Because JavaScript is single threaded and regex matching runs on the main thread, poor performance will block the event loop and lead to a DoS. The bad regular expression is generated any time you have two parameters within a single segment, separated by something that is not a period (.). For users of 0.1, upgrade to 0.1.10. All other users should upgrade to 8.0.0.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

September 9, 2024 CVE published
January 24, 2025 Record updated