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Inefficient RexExp complexity in generated code with .replace when transpiling named capturing groups (babel babel)

CVE-2025-27789
MEDIUM 6.2

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 0.56 % · percentile 47 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Deferred

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Description

Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript. When using versions of Babel prior to 7.26.10 and 8.0.0-alpha.17 to compile regular expression named capturing groups, Babel will generate a polyfill for the `.replace` method that has quadratic complexity on some specific replacement pattern strings (i.e. the second argument passed to `.replace`). Generated code is vulnerable if all the following conditions are true: Using Babel to compile regular expression named capturing groups, using the `.replace` method on a regular expression that contains named capturing groups, and the code using untrusted strings as the second argument of `.replace`. This problem has been fixed in `@babel/helpers` and `@babel/runtime` 7.26.10 and 8.0.0-alpha.17. It's likely that individual users do not directly depend on `@babel/helpers`, and instead depend on `@babel/core` (which itself depends on `@babel/helpers`). Upgrading to `@babel/core` 7.26.10 is not required, but it guarantees use of a new enough `@babel/helpers` version. Note that just updating Babel dependencies is not enough; one will also need to re-compile the code. No known workarounds are available.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Advisories

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected products

ProductVersions
babel · babelaffected < 7.26.10 ; affected >= 8.0.0-alpha.0, < 8.0.0-alpha.17

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD