CVE-2022-37260 — A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the input variable in main.js.

01What is this vulnerability?

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the input variable in main.js.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-09-15T18:18:22.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-03T10:29:20.580Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/m…
• github.com — https://github.com/stealjs/steal/blob/c9dd1eb19ed3f97aeb93cf9dcea5d68ad5d0ced9/m…
• github.com — https://github.com/stealjs/steal/issues/1529