CVE-2025-25288

@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest has a Regular Expression in iterator that Leads to ReDoS Vulnerability Due to Catastrophic Backtracking

Description

@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest is the Octokit plugin to paginate REST API endpoint responses. For versions starting in 1.0.0 and prior to 11.4.1 of the npm package `@octokit/plugin-paginate-rest`, when calling `octokit.paginate.iterator()`, a specially crafted `octokit` instance—particularly with a malicious `link` parameter in the `headers` section of the `request`—can trigger a ReDoS attack. Version 11.4.1 contains a fix for the issue.

Scores

Weaknesses (CWE)

• CWE-1333

Advisories

• GHSA-h5c3-5r3r-rr8q — @octokit/plugin-paginate-rest has a Regular Expression in iterator Leads to ReDoS Vulnerability Due to Catastrophic Backtracking

European references

• ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-4102
• GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-25288

CERT-FR advisories

• CERTFR-2025-AVI-0279 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits IBM · cert.ssi.gouv.fr

Affected products

References

• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/security/advisories/GHSA-h5c3-5r3r-rr8q
• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/commit/bb6c4f945d8023902cf387391d2b2209261044ab
• https://github.com/octokit/plugin-paginate-rest.js/blob/main/src/iterator.ts

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