steal Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity vulnerability via string variable

HIGH 7.5CVE-2022-37259 · GHSA-rgqx-226f-2xp4 · Published 20/09/2022 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2022-37259 is a HIGH (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability affecting steal (stealjs), steal.
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.3%, higher than 71.5% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
steal stealjs	`= 2.2.4`	No fix yet
steal npm	`≤ 2.3.0`	No fix yet

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the string variable in babel.js.

NVD description

A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) flaw was found in stealjs steal 2.2.4 via the string variable in babel.js.

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

= 2.2.4

No fix yet

npm

≤ 2.3.0

No fix yet

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