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CVE-2025-9308

yarn: yarnpkg regular expression denial of service

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

3.3

CVSS 3.1

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Published · August 22, 2025

Updated · July 29, 2026

Description

A regular expression denial of service flaw has been found in the yarn npm module. An attacker with local access can manipulate input to the function setOptions in such a way that the yarnpkg program becomes unresponsive.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 3.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity