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CVE-2022-3517A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 2.3%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 17% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.3% · top 17% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
minimatch
- affected minimatch versions prior to 3.0.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmminimatchGHSA-f8q6-p94x-37v3 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/a8763f4388e51956be62dc6025cec1126beeb5e6 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer/issues/329 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- [debian-lts-announce] 20230115 [SECURITY] [DLA 3271-1] node-minimatch security update (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-ce8943223c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2023-18fd476362 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2022-7089 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-f8q6-p94x-37v3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2022-3517)Record last updated .