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CVE-2022-25901

A public proof of concept exists; no exploitation attested.

  • Published2023-01-18
  • WeaknessCWE-1333

Am I affected?

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Description

Versions of the package cookiejar before 2.1.4 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the Cookie.parse function, which uses an insecure regular expression.

Timeline

dates in UTC
  1. 2023-01-1805:15CVE publishedNVD

Versions per branch

OSV · NVD
cookiejar
BranchAffectedFixed in
2.1≤ 2.1.3no fix published
cookiejar
BranchAffectedFixed in
2.1< 2.1.42.1.4
Cookiejar project cookiejar
BranchAffectedFixed in
2.1≤ 2.1.3no fix published

as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.

Products declared by the CNA2 products

As snyk, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written.

  • cookiejar
    Affected
    • < 2.1.4fixed in 2.1.4semver
  • org.webjars.npm:cookiejar
    Affected
    • all versionsno fix statedsemver

Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2023-09-12

Distribution builds and vendor advisories

Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.

version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.

Packages

  • node-cookiejarDebian:14all versions · fixed in 2.1.4+~2.1.2-1
  • node-cookiejarDebian:13all versions · fixed in 2.1.4+~2.1.2-1
  • node-cookiejarDebian:12all versions · fixed in 2.1.4+~2.1.2-1
  • node-cookiejarDebian:10all versions · fixed in 2.0.1-1+deb10u1

Vendor advisories

  • CVE-2022-25901 Red Hat Product Security2 known affected

    cookiejar: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS)

    rhacm2/search-api-rhel8 as a component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 · openshift-gitops-1/argocd-rhel8 as a component of Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

Full record on NVD

Fix

  1. No fix available, says the vendor Red Hat Product Security CVE-2022-25901 · 2 productsAffected

Advisories and patches

Detection

Nuclei template
none so far
ProjectDiscovery
Exploit-DB
no entry
Exploit-DB
Proof of concept
Metasploit modules
none listed
Metasploit Framework

Sources

  • CISA-ADPSSVC decisionpoc2025-04-02
  • CNACVSS 3.15.3known since 2026-10-23
  • NVDCVSS 3.17.5read 2026-10-23
  • CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-1333known since 2026-10-23
  • NVDweakness (CWE)CWE-1333read 2026-10-23
  • FIRST EPSSEPSS score1.6 %2026-11-08
  • OSVaffected packages—
  • GitHub AdvisoriesadvisoryMODERATE2023-01-23

Identifiers

Technical details

CVSS v3 Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Published
2023-01-18
Last Modified
2026-06-17
NVD status
Modified
GitHub Advisory
GHSA-h452-7996-h45h

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-25901?

Versions of the package cookiejar before 2.1.4 are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) via the Cookie.parse function, which uses an insecure regular expression.

Is CVE-2022-25901 actively exploited?

A proof-of-concept exploit exists for CVE-2022-25901, but active exploitation has not been confirmed at this time.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2022-25901?

CVE-2022-25901 has a CVSS v3 base score of 7.5 (HIGH severity), with vector string CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

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