CVE-2026-26996
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-26996
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-26996.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-26996
- Aliases
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2026-02-20T03:05:21.105Z
- Modified
- 2026-02-22T00:39:38.224041Z
- Severity
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- 8.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - 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 CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- minimatch has a ReDoS via repeated wildcards with non-matching literal in pattern
- Details
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minimatch is a minimal matching utility for converting glob expressions into JavaScript RegExp objects. Versions 10.2.0 and below are vulnerable to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) when a glob pattern contains many consecutive * wildcards followed by a literal character that doesn't appear in the test string. Each * compiles to a separate [^/]*? regex group, and when the match fails, V8's regex engine backtracks exponentially across all possible splits. The time complexity is O(4^N) where N is the number of * characters. With N=15, a single minimatch() call takes ~2 seconds. With N=34, it hangs effectively forever. Any application that passes user-controlled strings to minimatch() as the pattern argument is vulnerable to DoS. This issue has been fixed in version 10.2.1.
- Database specific
{ "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M", "cwe_ids": [ "CWE-1333" ], "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/26xxx/CVE-2026-26996.json" }- References
Affected packages
Git / github.com/isaacs/minimatch
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/isaacs/minimatch
- Events
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Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed