CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2026-102473

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: Sep 29, 2026 | Modified: Sep 30, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.5 MODERATE
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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A flaw was found in dash. When built without libc fnmatch, the internal pmatch() matcher implements * by unbounded recursion over candidate positions. A local user who can plant filenames, or otherwise feed that matcher, can make a short multi-star pattern such as ....*.tar.gz consume excessive CPU.

Weakness

The product uses a regular expression with a worst-case computational complexity that is inefficient and possibly exponential.

Potential Mitigations

References