CVE-2026-26996 (GCVE-0-2026-26996)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-20 03:05 – Updated: 2026-02-20 15:34
VLAI
Title
minimatch has a ReDoS via repeated wildcards with non-matching literal in pattern
Summary
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.
Severity
8.7 (High)
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
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-20 15:31 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
isaacs minimatch Affected: < 10.2.1
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