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CVE-2018-25061: rgb2hex redos

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-12-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

A vulnerability was found in rgb2hex up to 0.1.5. It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to inefficient regular expression complexity. The attack may be initiated remotely. Upgrading to version 0.1.6 is able to address this issue. The patch is named 9e0c38594432edfa64136fdf7bb651835e17c34f. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component. The associated identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217151.

Affected products

• rgb2hex: before 0.1.6 — fixed in 0.1.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: rgb2hex 0.1.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/christian-bromann/rgb2hex/commit/9e0c38594432edfa64136fdf7bb651835e17c34f
• https://github.com/christian-bromann/rgb2hex/releases/tag/v0.1.6
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217151
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217151
• https://github.com/christian-bromann/rgb2hex/commit/9e0c38594432edfa64136fdf7bb651835e17c34f
• https://github.com/christian-bromann/rgb2hex/releases/tag/v0.1.6
• https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.217151
• https://vuldb.com/?id.217151

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