A vulnerability was found in the minimatch package. This flaw allows a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when calling the braceExpand function with specific arguments, resulting in a Denial of Service.
CVE-2022-3517
This high-severity CVE scores 7.5 under NVD CVSS v3. EPSS exploit probability: 0.5%, top 34% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.5
- EG Score
- 7.5(medium)
- EPSS
- 74.1%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
October 17, 2022
Last Modified
May 13, 2025
References (10)
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer/issues/329
- secalert@redhathttps://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/a8763f4388e51956be62dc6025cec1126beeb5e6
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00011.html
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTEUUTNIEBHGKUKKLNUZSV7IEP6IP3Q3/
- secalert@redhathttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM6XJ73Q3NAM5KSGCOKJ2ZIA6GUWUJLK/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/grafana/grafana-image-renderer/issues/329
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch/commit/a8763f4388e51956be62dc6025cec1126beeb5e6
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00011.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MTEUUTNIEBHGKUKKLNUZSV7IEP6IP3Q3/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UM6XJ73Q3NAM5KSGCOKJ2ZIA6GUWUJLK/
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2022-3517(8)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:19094Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.24.0 Release.
- RHSA-2023:3742Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation 4.13.0 security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2023:1742Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2023:1743Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2023:1533Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
- RHSA-2023:0612Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: rh-nodejs14-nodejs and rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon security update
- RHSA-2023:0471Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: Migration Toolkit for Runtimes security update
- RHSA-2023:0050Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: nodejs:14 security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Patch Availability(14)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | node-minimatch (3.0.4-4ubuntu0.1) @ focal | 2026-05-25 | ubuntu |
| redhat | devspaces/code-rhel9:3.24-1760676569 | 2025-10-23 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/odf-cloudnative-pg-rhel9-operator:v4.19-1752649300 | 2025-07-28 | redhat |
| redhat | odf4/mcg-core-rhel9:v4.13.0-41 | 2023-06-21 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:14-8060020230306170237.ad008a3a | 2023-04-12 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:14-8070020230306170042.bd1311ed | 2023-04-12 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:14-8040020230306170312.522a0ee4 | 2023-03-30 | redhat |
| redhat | rh-nodejs14-nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-2.el7 | 2023-02-06 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs-minimatch | 2023-01-26 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs-nodemon-0:2.0.20-2.el9_1 | 2023-01-23 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:14-8070020221212161539.bd1311ed | 2023-01-09 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:16-8070020221207164159.bd1311ed | 2022-12-15 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:18-9010020221118120946.rhel9 | 2022-12-06 | redhat |
| redhat | nodejs:18-8070020221118123310.bd1311ed | 2022-12-06 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(1 across 1 ecosystem)
npm(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| minimatch | — | 3.0.5 | — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(6)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
- Red HatRHSA-2022:8832MODERATE2022-02-06
RHSA-2022:8832 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:8833MODERATE2022-02-06
RHSA-2022:8833 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2022:9073MODERATE2022-02-06
RHSA-2022:9073 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2023:0321MODERATE2022-02-06
RHSA-2023:0321 — Moderate
- Red HatRHSA-2025:11814MODERATE2022-02-06
RHSA-2025:11814 — Moderate
- UbuntuUSN-6086-1MEDIUM
minimatch vulnerability
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 9× in last 7d / 45× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-07-11 08:25 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-28 15:32 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-06-28 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-23 21:31 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-11 05:39 UTCOSV refresh
- 2026-06-10 22:17 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-05-25 13:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-05-25 13:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-05-24 16:51 UTCEPSS rescore
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