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CVE-2022-2596

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2022-2596 is an Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability affecting node-fetch versions prior to 3.2.10. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) has a high impact on availability, requiring no user interaction and having a high attack complexity. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.0.0, < 3.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:node-fetch_project:node-fetch:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.9MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
62.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0113 is in the 25th percentile among its peer group of 19,953 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
npmpatch availablevia ghsa
Product: node-fetchFixed in: 3.2.10

Vendor Advisories (2)

npmGHSA-vp56-6g26-6827medium

node-fetch Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Aug 2, 2022
redhatCVE-2022-2596Moderate

node-fetch: Denial of Service in GitHub repository node-fetch

Aug 1, 2022

References

github.com / node-fetch/node-fetch/commit/28802387292baee467e042e168d92597b5bbbe3d
PatchThird Party Advisory
huntr.dev / bounties/a7e6a136-0a4b-46c4-ad20-802f1dd60bf7
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory