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CVE-2025-5890: actions toolkit glob internal-pattern.ts globEscape redos

4.3 CVSS

Description

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in actions toolkit 0.5.0. This affects the function globEscape of the file toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts of the component glob. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Es wurde eine Schwachstelle in actions toolkit 0.5.0 entdeckt. Sie wurde als problematisch eingestuft. Hiervon betroffen ist die Funktion globEscape der Datei toolkit/packages/glob/src/internal-pattern.ts der Komponente glob. Durch das Beeinflussen mit unbekannten Daten kann eine inefficient regular expression complexity-Schwachstelle ausgenutzt werden. Der Angriff kann über das Netzwerk angegangen werden.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-5890

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 4.3

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

Problem Types

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Vendor: actions

Product: toolkit

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.77% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-25 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5890
https://vuldb.com/?id.311661
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.311661
https://vuldb.com/?submit.585727
https://github.com/actions/toolkit/pull/2057

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