FKIE_CVE-2026-68499

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-07-30 21:18 - Updated: 2026-07-31 20:16
Severity
6.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
re2 provides Node.js bindings for Google's RE2 regular expression engine. Prior to 1.25.2, re2's String.prototype.match implementation with a global RE2 pattern that can match the empty string fails to advance its native matching cursor in lib/match.cc, causing an infinite loop and unbounded native memory growth that blocks the event loop and can exhaust host memory. This issue is fixed in 1.25.2.
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/uhop/node-re2/commit/56293de4fc0914d7bc35f92e98de25b0d9bb417d
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/uhop/node-re2/releases/tag/1.25.2
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/uhop/node-re2/security/advisories/GHSA-6hxr-mr5r-9836
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://github.com/uhop/node-re2/security/advisories/GHSA-6hxr-mr5r-9836
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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