CVE-2025-54364
Microsoft Knack 0.12.0 allows Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the knack.introspection module. option_descriptions employs an inefficient regular expression pattern: "s(:param)s+(.+?)s:(.*)" that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking when processing crafted docstrings containing a large volume of whitespace without a terminating colon. An attacker who can control or inject docstring content into affected applications can trigger excessive CPU consumption. This software is used by Azure CLI.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-54364
Categories
CWE-1333 : Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential. ReDoS is an abbreviation of "Regular expression Denial of Service". While this term is attack-focused, this is commonly used to describe the weakness. This term is used to describe the behavior of the regular expression as a negative technical impact. Automated static analysis, commonly referred to as Static Application Security Testing (SAST), can find some instances of this weakness by analyzing source code (or binary/compiled code) without having to execute it. Typically, this is done by building a model of data flow and control flow, then searching for potentially-vulnerable patterns that connect "sources" (origins of input) with "sinks" (destinations where the data interacts with external components, a lower layer such as the OS, etc.) Use regular expressions that do not support backtracking, e.g. by removing nested quantifiers. Set backtracking limits in the configuration of the regular expression implementation, such as PHP's pcre.backtrack_limit. Also consider limits on execution time for the process. Do not use regular expressions with untrusted input. If regular expressions must be used, avoid using backtracking in the expression. Limit the length of the input that the regular expression will process. server allows ReDOS with crafted User-Agent strings, due to overlapping capture groups that cause excessive backtracking. npm package for user-agent parser prone to ReDoS due to overlapping capture groups Markdown parser uses inefficient regex when processing a message, allowing users to cause CPU consumption and delay preventing processing of other messages. Long string in a version control product allows DoS due to an inefficient regex. Javascript code allows ReDoS via a long string due to excessive backtracking. ReDoS when parsing time. ReDoS when parsing documents. ReDoS when validating URL.
References
AFFECTED (from MITRE)
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| Microsoft |
Knack |
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| © 2022 The MITRE Corporation. This work is reproduced and distributed with the permission of The MITRE Corporation. |
CPE
REMEDIATION
EXPLOITS
Exploit-db.com
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| No known exploits |
POC Github
Other Nist (github, ...)
CAPEC
Common Attack Pattern Enumerations and Classifications
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| 492 |
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup
An adversary may execute an attack on a program that uses a poor Regular Expression(Regex) implementation by choosing input that results in an extreme situation for the Regex. A typical extreme situation operates at exponential time compared to the input size. This is due to most implementations using a Nondeterministic Finite Automaton(NFA) state machine to be built by the Regex algorithm since NFA allows backtracking and thus more complex regular expressions. |
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