DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-26996
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996
Upstream
Published
2026-02-20T03:16:01.620Z
Modified
2026-02-21T10:48:57.256646Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / node-minimatch

Package

Name
node-minimatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/node-minimatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

3.*
3.0.4+~3.0.3-1
3.0.4+~3.0.3-1+deb11u1
3.0.4+~3.0.3-1+deb11u2
3.0.4+~3.0.5-1
3.0.5+~3.0.5-1
3.1.1+~3.0.5-1
5.*
5.0.0+~3.0.5-1
5.0.0+~3.0.5-2
5.1.0+~3.0.5-1
5.1.1+~5.1.2-1
9.*
9.0.3-1
9.0.3-2
9.0.3-3
9.0.3-4
9.0.3-5
9.0.3-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996.json"

Debian:12 / node-minimatch

Package

Name
node-minimatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/node-minimatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

5.*
5.1.1+~5.1.2-1
9.*
9.0.3-1
9.0.3-2
9.0.3-3
9.0.3-4
9.0.3-5
9.0.3-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996.json"

Debian:13 / node-minimatch

Package

Name
node-minimatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/node-minimatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*
9.0.3-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996.json"

Debian:14 / node-minimatch

Package

Name
node-minimatch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/node-minimatch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

9.*
9.0.3-6

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-26996.json"