High severity · published Jul 6, 2022
CVE-2022-31129
moment is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates
7.5
CVSS
5.6%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
moment is a JavaScript date library for parsing, validating, manipulating, and formatting dates. Affected versions of moment were found to use an inefficient parsing algorithm. Specifically using string-to-date parsing in moment (more specifically rfc2822 parsing, which is tried by default) has quadratic (N^2) complexity on specific inputs. Users may notice a noticeable slowdown is observed with inputs above 10k characters. Users who pass user-provided strings without sanity length checks to moment constructor are vulnerable to (Re)DoS attacks. The problem is patched in 2.29.4, the patch can be applied to all affected versions with minimal tweaking. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should consider limiting date lengths accepted from user input.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)5.6% · higher than 93% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
DL
Debian Linux · Debian
10.0 · source: NVD
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
35; 36; 37 · source: NVD
MO
Moment · Momentjs
2.18.0 before 2.29.4; 2.18.0 before 2.29.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-31129
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-31129
Patch
https://github.com/moment/moment/commit/9a3b5894f3d5d602948ac8a02e4ee528a49ca3a3
Exploit
https://github.com/moment/moment/pull/6015#issuecomment-1152961973
Issue Tracking
https://github.com/moment/moment/security/advisories/GHSA-wc69-rhjr-hc9g
Exploit
https://huntr.dev/bounties/f0952b67-f2ff-44a9-a9cd-99e0a87cb633/
Mailing List
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00035.html
lists.fedoraproject.org
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/6QIO6YNLTK2T7SPKDS4JEL45FANLNC2Q/
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