CVE-2026-71498

node-re2: Out-of-bounds heap read in `replace`/`split` via a `Buffer` ending in a truncated multi-byte UTF-8 character → adjacent heap memory disclosed to JavaScript

Details

node-re2 provides RE2 regular expression bindings for Node.js. Prior to version 1.26.1, passing a Buffer whose final bytes form a truncated (incomplete) multi-byte UTF-8 sequence could cause the native binding to read past the end of the allocated buffer while attempting to decode the final, incomplete code point. This could result in an out-of-bounds read and potential disclosure of adjacent memory contents. This issue is fixed in version 1.26.1.

Database specific

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    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M",
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/71xxx/CVE-2026-71498.json",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-125"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/uhop/node-re2

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/uhop/node-re2

Events

Introduced

Fixed

9d72042a6a0da5bc523908b04808ea0e23867cc4

Database specific

{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.26.1"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.0

1.*

1.0.0

1.1.0

1.1.1

1.10.0

1.10.1

1.10.2

1.10.3

1.10.4

1.10.5

1.11.0

1.12.0

1.12.1

1.13.0

1.14.0

1.15.0

1.15.1

1.15.2

1.15.3

1.15.4

1.15.5

1.15.6

1.15.7

1.15.8

1.15.9

1.16.0

1.17.0

1.17.1

1.17.2

1.17.3

1.17.4

1.17.5

1.17.6

1.17.7

1.17.8

1.18.0

1.18.1

1.18.2

1.18.3

1.19.0

1.19.1

1.19.2

1.2.0

1.20.0

1.20.1

1.20.10

1.20.11

1.20.12

1.20.2

1.20.3

1.20.4

1.20.5

1.20.6

1.20.7

1.20.8

1.20.9

1.21.0

1.21.1

1.21.2

1.21.3

1.21.4

1.21.5

1.22.0

1.22.1

1.22.2

1.22.3

1.23.0

1.23.1

1.23.2

1.23.3

1.24.0

1.24.1

1.25.0

1.25.1

1.25.2

1.26.0

1.3.0

1.3.1

1.3.2

1.3.3

1.4.0

1.4.1

1.5.0

1.6.0

1.6.1

1.6.2

1.7.0

1.8.0

1.8.1

1.8.2

1.8.3

1.8.4

1.9.0

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-71498.json"