Regular expression denial of service in eth-account

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-1930 · GHSA-v65g-f3cj-fjp4 · PYSEC-2026-806 · Published 22/08/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-1930 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting eth-account, eth-account (ethereum).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.91%, higher than 60.0% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 0.5.9 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
eth-account PyPI	`< 0.5.9`	`0.5.9`
eth-account ethereum	`< 0.5.9`	`0.5.9`

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

NVD 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

References

nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-1930 · ADVISORY
ethereum/eth-account commit 70f89be · WEB
ethereum/eth-account · PACKAGE
research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/eth-account-redos-xray-248681 · WEB
research.jfrog.com/vulnerabilities/eth-account-redos-xray-248681 · Exploit
pypi.org/project/eth-account · PACKAGE
GitHub Advisory GHSA-v65g-f3cj-fjp4 · ADVISORY

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