CVE•Published 2026-05-26•Modified 2026-05-26•0 articles on news•7 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-9496

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

HIGH

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

EPSS percentile

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Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1333Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Description

Versions of the package pacote from 11.2.7 are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) via the addGitSha function. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by supplying a specially crafted spec.rawSpec value that triggers the function’s regex replacement and string-manipulation logic, causing excessive CPU consumption and potentially stalling or crashing the process.

Timeline

Published 2026-05-26

Modified 2026-05-26

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC Sploitus trickest/cve VulnCheck

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-9496

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Censys

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