Regular Expression Denial of Service in sshpk

HIGH 7.5CVE-2018-3737 · GHSA-2m39-62fm-q8r3 · Published 07/06/2018 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2018-3737 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting sshpk (joyent), sshpk.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.7%, higher than 77.4% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 1.13.2 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sshpk joyent	`≤ 1.13.1`	No fix yet
sshpk npm	`< 1.13.2`	`1.13.2`

Versions of sshpk before 1.13.2 or 1.14.1 are vulnerable to regular expression denial of service when parsing crafted invalid public keys.

Update to version 1.13.2, 1.14.1 or later.

NVD description

sshpk is vulnerable to ReDoS when parsing crafted invalid public keys.

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