CVE intelligence and bounded remediation

CVE-2025-9308 — A vulnerability has been found in yarnpkg Yarn up to 1.22.22

Medium CVSS 5.5

A vulnerability has been found in yarnpkg Yarn up to 1.22.22. This impacts the function setOptions of the file src/util/request-manager.js. Such manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. Local access is required to approach this attack. This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.

Severity
Medium
CVSS
5.5 (3.1)
Published
2025-08-21
CISA KEV
Not currently listed
Ecosystem
software/application
Weaknesses
CWE-400, CWE-1333

Affected products

  • yarnpkg / yarn

Matched remediation archetype

Resource exhaustion and denial of service

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Check exposure

  • Identify attacker-influenced work factors including input size, nesting, compression, fan-out, regex cost, allocation, recursion, retries, and connection lifetime.
  • Map per-request and shared CPU, memory, disk, descriptor, thread, queue, and downstream-service limits.
  • Determine whether authentication, tenancy, quotas, and rate controls apply before expensive processing begins.

Remediate safely

  • Bound input size, nesting, expansion, work, concurrency, queue depth, retries, and execution time before resource-intensive processing.
  • Release resources on every success, error, cancellation, and timeout path and use backpressure instead of unbounded buffering.
  • Update affected components and add small deterministic tests that assert resource ceilings rather than exhausting a host.

Authoritative sources

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