Vulnerability in Eth-Account

CVE-2022-1930

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the eth-account PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the encode_structured_data method

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

Published · last modified .

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: 0.009 (57.8th percentile), scored .

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 58th percentile — 57.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2022-1930: held from 0.009 to 0.009.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1930?
CVE-2022-1930 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Eth-Account, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2022-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2022-1930?
Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.
Is CVE-2022-1930 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.