CVE-2026-27904

minimatch: Minimatch: Denial of Service via catastrophic backtracking in glob expressions

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

6.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · February 26, 2026

Updated · October 21, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in minimatch. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted glob expression with nested unbounded quantifiers. This could lead to catastrophic backtracking in the V8 JavaScript engine, causing the application to become unresponsive and resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Statement

Exploitation of this flaw requires that a user or service processes untrusted input.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 6.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity