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CVE-2022-1930: ReDoS in eth-account encode_structured_data function

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-22 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

An exponential ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service) can be triggered in the eth-account PyPI package, when an attacker is able to supply arbitrary input to the encode_structured_data method

Affected products

• eth-account: before 0.5.9 — fixed in 0.5.9

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: eth-account 0.5.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/eth-account-redos-xray-248681/
• https://research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/eth-account-redos-xray-248681/

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