CVE-2025-54364

CVSS

No CVSS.

M

icrosoft Knack 0.12.0 allows Regular expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in the knack.introspection module. option_descriptions employs an inefficient regular expression pattern: "\s(:param)\s+(.+?)\s:(.*)" that is susceptible to catastrophic backtracking when processing crafted docstrings containing a large volume of whitespace without a terminating colon. An attacker who can control or inject docstring content into affected applications can trigger excessive CPU consumption. This software is used by Azure CLI.

References

Link	Resource
https://github.com/microsoft/knack
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/microsoft-knack-python-package-regular-expression-dos

Configurations

No configuration.

History

21 Aug 2025, 16:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-08-20 03:15

Updated : 2025-08-21 16:15

NVD link : CVE-2025-54364

Mitre link : CVE-2025-54364

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-54364

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Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-1333

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

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