What is CVE-2022-1929?

CVE-2022-1929 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Devcert, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2022-06-02.

How severe is CVE-2022-1929?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Devcert

CVE-2022-1929

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the devcert npm package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the certificateFor method

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

Published 2022-06-02 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.3th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Devcert — versions unspecified
Devcert Project

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/devcert-redos-xray-211352/ (Exploit, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1929?: CVE-2022-1929 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Devcert, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2022-06-02.
How severe is CVE-2022-1929?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.