Base weakness
Draft
CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Also known as: ReDoS, Regular Expression Denial of Service, Catastrophic backtracking
The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.
296
Recorded CVEs
With this primary weakness
0
KEVs
In the CISA KEV catalog
High
Likelihood of exploit
Per MITRE
Base
Abstraction
MITRE classification
Overview
CWE-1333 (Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity) is a base-level software weakness catalogued by MITRE in the Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE). It describes a recurring type of mistake that can lead to exploitable security vulnerabilities.