# CVE-2024-52798

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2024-52798
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7.7 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P)
- **CWE:** CWE-1333
- **Published:** Dec 5, 2024
- **Last Modified:** Mar 13, 2026

## Description

path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.

## Affected Products

- pillarjs — path-to-regexp (< 0.1.12)

## References

- [CNA](https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp/security/advisories/GHSA-rhx6-c78j-4q9w)
- [CNA](https://github.com/pillarjs/path-to-regexp/commit/f01c26a013b1889f0c217c643964513acf17f6a4)
- [CVE](https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20250124-0002/)

## Exploitation Prediction (EPSS)

- **EPSS Score:** 0.79%
- **EPSS Percentile:** 54.2

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._