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CVE-2022-31129

HIGH
Published 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
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CVSS Score

V3.1
7.5
/10
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Base Score Metrics
Exploitability: N/A Impact: N/A

EPSS Score

v2025.03.14
0.030
probability
of exploitation in the wild

There is a 3.0% chance that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.

Updated: 2025-06-25
Exploit Probability
Percentile: 0.861
Higher than 86.1% of all CVEs

Attack Vector Metrics

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED

Impact Metrics

Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH

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.

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Affected Products

GitHub Security Advisories

Community-driven vulnerability intelligence from GitHub

✓ GitHub Reviewed HIGH

Moment.js vulnerable to Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

GHSA-wc69-rhjr-hc9g

Advisory Details

### Impact * using string-to-date parsing in moment (more specifically rfc2822 parsing, which is tried by default) has quadratic (N^2) complexity on specific inputs * 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 ### Patches The problem is patched in 2.29.4, the patch can be applied to all affected versions with minimal tweaking. ### Workarounds In general, given the proliferation of ReDoS attacks, it makes sense to limit the length of the user input to something sane, like 200 characters or less. I haven't seen legitimate cases of date-time strings longer than that, so all moment users who do pass a user-originating string to constructor are encouraged to apply such a rudimentary filter, that would help with this but also most future ReDoS vulnerabilities. ### References There is an excellent writeup of the issue here: https://github.com/moment/moment/pull/6015#issuecomment-1152961973= ### Details The issue is rooted in the code that removes legacy comments (stuff inside parenthesis) from strings during rfc2822 parsing. `moment("(".repeat(500000))` will take a few minutes to process, which is unacceptable.

Affected Packages

npm moment
ECOSYSTEM: ≥2.18.0 <2.29.4
NuGet Moment.js
ECOSYSTEM: ≥2.18.0 <2.29.4

CVSS Scoring

CVSS Score

7.5

CVSS Vector

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

Advisory provided by GitHub Security Advisory Database. Published: July 6, 2022, Modified: September 14, 2022

References

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Published: 2022-07-06T00:00:00.000Z
Last Modified: 2025-04-22T17:52:04.488Z
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