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CVE-2026-9496

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Published: May 26, 2026 | Modified: Jul 23, 2026
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
7.5 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-9496
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/1333.html

Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 and before 21.5.1 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted spec.rawSpec value that triggers the function’s regex replacement and string-manipulation logic, causing excessive CPU consumption and potentially stalling or crashing the process.

Weakness

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

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10RedHatnodejs22-1:22.23.2-3.el10_2*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Extended Update SupportRedHatnodejs22-1:22.23.2-2.el10_0*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8RedHatnodejs:22-8100020260928121333.6d880403*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9RedHatnodejs:22-9080020260928121441.rhel9*
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.6 Extended Update SupportRedHatnodejs:22-9060020261009101511.rhel9*
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2RedHatansible-automation-platform/bootc-automation-portal-rhel9:1792641102*
Red Hat Hardened ImagesRedHatgrafana12-4-main-12.4.10-0.8.hum1*
Red Hat Hardened ImagesRedHatgrafana12-4-main-12.4.10-0.9.hum1*
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31RedHatdevspaces/dashboard-rhel9:1791945540*
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31RedHatdevspaces/openvsx-rhel9:1792494821*
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31RedHatdevspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9:1792495212*
Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces 3.31RedHatdevspaces/udi-rhel9:1792708612*
Red Hat Satellite 6.18RedHatsatellite/iop-remediations-rhel9:1793065138*
Red Hat Satellite 6.19RedHatsatellite/iop-remediations-rhel9:1793092253*
NpmUbuntuquesting*

Potential Mitigations

References

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